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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Not great, but it doesn’t completely suck. One of my many attempts at fiction - Lila 6/27/2012 I looked to the port and saw our three mosquito craft astern and slightly trailing. Over the wirele...
Two broken Tigers on fire in the night, flicker their souls to the wind in General
I suppose it is this time each year. The air conditioners are out of the windows. In the absence of white noise Mister Tinnitus, which the VA denies, starts whispering. I don’t know what he is...
Right in front of me the whole time. For years I have tried to see her. I knew she was Spanish. I knew she was fierce. I knew she was beautiful. But because the character was a composite, as a...
Roads to Moscow in General
I’m in a weird headspace. I’m in a graduate level writing class, so I am paying a lot of attention to the way words are put together. Al Stewart’s “Roads to Moscow” is genius. Two broken Tiger...
The Mercy of the Fallen in General
The problem with arbitrary deadlines is that the universe really doesn’t give a fuck. Yesterday I went up to ‘Salem’s Lot and had a burger with my sister and the folks. Sister is on a plane to ...
The writing Screen in General
Sometimes I don’t like the way my computer doesn’t seem to know when I am doing school work or when I am needing to talk. Tonight the Word screen pops on the left. The academic. It should have o...
Sitting Shiva in General
I’m not Jewish. But I think two weeks is long enough for me to stack my shit back up and start stopping. Around this time two weeks ago one of the best friends I have ever had killed herself. W...
Freewrite 9 19 19 in General
Freewrite 9 19 19 That’s a lot of nines. Microsoft word frustrates me. Try as I may try as I might it randomly picks a font. Military standard and scholastic standard is Times New Roman 12 Point...
Freewrite 9 18 19 in General
I am supposed to be freewriting 2-3 hours a day. I haven’t gotten anywhere close to that. Every time everything seems alright I remember and the wind comes out of my sails. My very last interact...
I cant believe you aren’t right there at the other end of the text stream. I waited this morning, watching the Sunday Morning News Shows, for your name and number to ghost up on the upper right c...
Heartbroken in General
I am heartbroken and numb. Goddamn it Sandy.
Heartbroken in General
I am heartbroken and numb. Goddamn it Sandy.
San Francisco Mabel Joy in General
I got up this morning intending to take a long walk. But it was cold. And I was too lazy to put on sweats. Okay. “Cold” needs a qualifier. All summer long I wear an Under Armour tank and sh...
Me and Dad in General
Me and Dad. The last two of a long line of career warriors. My son broke the run, some thousand years in the making.
ID It’s Sunday morning. I have a couple of hours to waste, and the news isn’t all that interesting. Up to ‘Salem’s Lot for the annual August family cookout. I’m not even on the hook for anyth...
ID It’s Sunday morning. I have a couple of hours to waste, and the news isn’t all that interesting. Up to ‘Salem’s Lot for the annual August family cookout. I’m not even on the hook for anyth...
My love, It is past my birthday now. I have made it to 57. In my teens and early twenties I really didn’t think I would see the end of my forties. We think we choose a path until we find our s...
Trip Around the Sun in General
Trip Around the Sun Holy shit Martina has beautiful eyes! I started the day doing what I do this time of year. Watered the plants. Wondered when I should mow the lawn. I have a comfortable rh...
Twenty years ago I was in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Somewhere between Sandog and Hawaii. The early summer I had spent the weekends in the BOQ at the Amphib base on North Island. No wa...
Twenty years ago I was in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Somewhere between Sandog and Hawaii. The early summer I had spent the weekends in the BOQ at the Amphib base on North Island. No wa...
I'm So Getting a D on this. in General
My task here and now is to describe the author’s use of craft elements. My paired novels are Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The most obvious craft of the two nov...
Boner Pills in General
I was driving home from the beach yesterday afternoon, listening to the radio. During the commercial break the DJ decided to go off script on one of the male enhancement products he was shilling...
Strangest thing about memories. In 1997 I was working in the Electronic Warfare Coordination Cell (EWCC) at the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) at Dal Molin, Vicenza Italy during the Bosni...
Caretaker 4 Redux in General
I got feedback from my class on Caretaker 4. Some minor critiques on language and awkwardness. Nothing I wasn’t expecting. I pounded that story out in a few hours and only edited it once. Wha...
Louder Than Ever in General
Louder Than Ever You were there in the front seat Windows down, we were burnin’ It was just like a movie scene Those dashboard lights and your pale blue eyes Cutting through me… It is cool, fogg...
