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Memoir from Hell

It took me over five years to discover that the Gates of Hell had no locks on them. All that time I had been holding myself prisoner there when I could have left my bondage at any time. And so I left. I pushed open the gate and walked out, leaving my guilt and shame [...]

Friends

I have many different kinds of friends. I have friends with whom I’ve shared a common bond of service, friends I’ve known from childhood, friends I’ve worked with and friends with whom I share common interests. Some of these friendships I’ve maintained for decades, some I’ve recently renewed after many years. Some friends are people [...]

BARF Therapy

Pay no attention to that man in the dark little room at the end of the house. He’s just doing what he finds necessary to keep his sanity. He is, to borrow a phrase from the late Douglas Adams, mostly harmless.

Really, the noises, the obscenities, the ranting and raving coming from the man-cave are not [...]

Penultimate Day, 2009

I do believe that 2009 may very well be destined to go down in history as the year that sucked donkey. In many ways, it was worse than the Hell of 2002 although that was primarily an internal ordeal whereas this year just sucked in general.

Here it is, the penultimate day of the penultimate year [...]

Writer's Block: Confidences

Who do you think it is easier to talk about your problems with: your friends, your family, or strangers?

You mean you can talk about your problems with other people? Without having to pay them for an hour of their time? I’ll have to look into this.

I used to be able to takl to my mother [...]

Writer’s Block: Change for the Better over a Decade

How are you a better person today than you were ten years ago?

For one thing, I’m probably healthier and more health concious. Ten years ago I was flirting with the Dark Side and I’ve since put that behind me, though not without a few battle scars and some collateral damage.

Back then, I was still immersed [...]

Questions & Answers

On Live Journal, they have a daily “Writers Block” question, usually submitted by member. The questions are sometimes trivial but, occasionally, require some thought. Since my postings on Live Journal have slacked off in recent months, I thought I’d post my answers to some of those questions here.

Do you believe in true love? What about [...]

Writer’s Block: What a Way to Make a Living

What’s the worst job you’ve ever had?

I guess it would be my short stint testing software for Lexis-Nexis. It was the same thing day after day, the same software, the same bugs. It got boring very quickly. I’m not at liberty to discuss the other job in the running. Let’s just aay that stress and [...]

Writer’s Block: Timely Departures

If you could jump in a time machine and travel back to any point in history, where would you go?

There are so many times and places I’d like to travel to. To be able to travel back in time to meet and talk to, or at least observe, my ancestors would be a genealogiest’s dream [...]

Writer’s Block: Really, Truly

Do you believe in true love? What about love at first sight?

I absolutely believe in true love. My parents had it. They were together for 60 years through good times and bad, in sickness and in health, until death did they part. But true love remains.

I also believe in love at first sight. It happened [...]

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