It’s Been a While

My mother died today. Well, it was yesterday but I thought using the opening line from Albert Camus’ The Stranger (which is my favorite opening line in a novel). You might be reading this and thinking that I am very cold about this whole thing. I promise you I’m not. In...

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One Year Anniversary

My son has been gone for one year. And I still miss him I am lucky to have such great family and friends. They have helped me, and continue to help me, through this time. I have so much to say and I have grown so much. But, for...

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Sigh…

It’s been a while. But I think it’s time. I’m depressed. Badly. I’m not suicidal but my life is unraveling. My son has been gone for almost a year. It hurts. My girlfriend, who has recently become my fiance, doesn’t seem to be there for me. She seems more...

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Happy Thanksgiving!

It’s Thanksgiving. A day I thought would be really tough since it is the first Thanksgiving since Joe. Died. Heck, I think the entire holiday season is going to be rough. Josie, her daughters and I went to Los Angeles to have Thanksgiving dinner with my father. It was...

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Dia de los Muertos

From October 31 through November 2, the Mexican people celebrate a tradition called Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead. The matriarch of the family set up an alter with all those the family has lost. It was beautiful. Josie, seeing me look at it told me...

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Movie Review: Apostle…Well, Not Really a Review

I have some great news. I bought another website. This one is called DumbassesTalkingPolitics.com. I created this website to post my political views and the views of my friends. This site will also be a resource for our podcast that is in the making. The bad news is I...

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God Help Me…

I started to whittling to take my mind off of Joe. To relax. I whittled this little guy, painted and antiqued it and it looks good (not great or perfect). In my pride, I showed people, and I heard how good it looked. But the reason I started doing...

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Book Review: Ship of Fools

I have a daily process. I wake up, go to work, take a half hour lunch, listen to Ben Shapiro’s podcast on the way home and then turn on the Tucker Carlson show on Fox News. I was very wary of Tucker Carlson at first. I replaced my favorite...

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Insanity

The last two years have been very chaotic. Well, chaotic is a word that seems to be a tad too Tao, which I find to be a very wise religion and shouldn’t be used as an adjective, to be used to describe what we have been going through in...

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