(This post has been adapted from a former iteration of this website and various other websites that reposted it in March of 2010. Posted here in October of 2012 and edited June 27, 2013) I grew up fatherless. I saw my dad a few times […]
Category: Personal Stories
The Great Anger
The following post has been adapted from its original posting on a previous iteration of this website, a Facebook note, and other places it was reposted. I’m reposting it to both keep my thoughts for posterity and in the hopes that it may be encouraging to […]
Those Beautifully Horrible Moments in Life
I’ve had, like most everyone, less than ideal moments that elicit gratefulness later in life. I call them “those beautifully horrible moments in life.” I faced childhood challenges largely alone, moved out of my mother’s home when I was 14, moved away from friends time […]
My Brief Review of Ooma Phone Service
I got real sick of paying Mediacom insane amounts of money for a home phone with no voicemail. So I quit paying Medicom for TV and phone and now only have their internet service (at 20 mbps it isn’t East Coast fast but it’s enough […]
Loving Your Enemy
I said something to a colleague a couple of weeks ago and it has been haunting me ever since. It isn’t a new concept but I’ve never articulated it the way I did this time and it has been rattling around my head ever since. […]