When I was twenty-three years old, I packed up what I could into my Honda Civic and drove out West with my girlfriend and good friend to Oregon, sight-unseen to start a new life. I quit a good job at a university, and with about $1000 to my name, headed West with abstract thoughts [...]
On our second to last day in Ireland, my father and I negotiated the Ireland busing system, and purchased two tickets to Ardee, a small village about an hour and a half north of Dublin. The bus would apparently stop a five minute walk outside of the main town – and another bus would [...]
On Sunday I was cleaning up my apartment, and decided the two Netflix DVDs sitting on top of the stereo had been here long enough (unwatched) – so I packaged them up and on Monday dropped them in the mailbox on my way to work. I arrived home today to have two new DVDs waiting [...]
It’s been a rough couple weeks.
A close friend lost his sister in a car accident three weeks ago – and just when I was beginning to breath regularly again and not self-reflect the incident on my own reality and my own beloved family – I received a Facebook message from one of my closest friend’s [...]
When I was a freshman in high school I began making a lot of observations and conjectures about what was actually going on here. While most boys my age had girls on the mind – I became obsessed with the nature of reality. I had become a devout atheist in middle school, but being unsatisfied [...]
On Christmas morning I saw a Facebook post from my cousin regarding a video game called Braid. As it is rare to see any female make a post about a fun video game – I decided to check it out. The write-up seemed interesting and the graphics beautiful – so I dropped the $10 and [...]
These are things the elderly woman sitting beside me on my 3.5 hour flight from Houston (a stop-over on my flight from Philadelphia) told me. I won’t bother to detail which points I agree with or disagree with. The point of this exercise is that we are all bat-shit crazy, and should probably just learn [...]
The photograph taped to the dashboard caught my eye the second I entered the cab. A beautiful African women in traditional clothes, sitting gracefully with a large book spread-open upon her lap and a smile that filled the car. I assumed by her apparent age and the drivers age – that it might be his [...]
Last week I decided it was time to make an appointment with the eye-doctor and freshen up the old prescription. It had been about two years and I had a suspicion my sight wasn’t as strong as it had been. Losing your sight, as I have been for over a decade now, is sort of [...]
