Wow.  It’s been almost three weeks since I’ve written anything.  That’s three weeks without a weigh-in, three weeks without my wonderfully witty banter, and three weeks of digital blight upon my domain.  Get it?  Domain?  Like dot com?
Ahem.  Right.  Rapier wit, indeed.
I haven’t been idle, however!  This has just been crunch time at school, and [...]

I remember the intro to the 70s Old West meets martial arts television series, Kung Fu.  The old, venerable master, sitting cross-legged, a hand outstretched toward his student.  The student, a boy no more than thirteen, strikes quickly, trying to grab something, a small, black stone, from the hand of his teacher.  He isn’t quick [...]

It looks like I’m going back to college.
Pretty cool, huh?  In the process of making all these sweeping changes in my life, this is just one more, piled on top of the others.  I’ll be headed to a local community college for a couple years, then off to a nearby university to finish my Bachelors [...]

Someone on boards I visit regularly recently asked about the most significant injury his fellow posters had ever sustained.  Here’s my response:
I’ve fallen from twenty feet of scaffolding. I’ve been hit by a car. I’ve run into a truck. I’ve been in two vehicles that rolled. I’ve been in numerous fights. I’ve been struck by [...]

Question: If 100 people your age were chosen at random, how many do you think you’d find live a more satisfying life than yours?
Define satisfying. Is it having everything you want, or everything you need?
At age 36, I am not at the peak of my financial status. In fact, history may go on to [...]

How do you introduce something like this?
I would like to think we are too far removed from the actual event for anyone to take offense by what I am about to post; in truth, there is little in it that is really all that offensive. It’s a story seed – a few short paragraphs describing [...]

You would never believe what you can learn when you’re at a low point in life.
Five years ago, we were house-sitting my parents’ little rambler. A good deal for them, because they needed someone to keep an eye on the place. A good deal for us because we had nowhere else to go at the [...]

I was driving to work, listening to the local talk radio station, as was my normal routine, prepared to see my physical therapist before going on the clock for a another day of the same old thing: customer calls and Diablo II.  The drive was a time of relaxation, fifteen minutes from home to office, [...]

There are times when I forget my humanity. You have certainly had those times – moments when you are on top of your game, when nothing seems to be going wrong, when you have the wind in your sails, and find yourself reciting all sorts of other overused cliches to positively describe your situation [...]

Let me preface this by saying that this post is not about flames or hate or anything you might expect.  I wanted this one, from the get-go, to have a different tenor than what you’ll normally hear. I’m hoping that people on all sides of the issue can understand just where I’m coming from.
So here [...]