Tag Archives: Personal History

My local community brought down the gavel on my parenting skills. Had that community been as large as Ms. Spears’, I’d have surely perished.

A formative superstition still lurks in the heart of the temple.

If you want us to forget 9/11, you’ll have to wait until all of us who lost someone that day are laid to rest ourselves.

I find the turn of the calendar to September exhilarating, and I have felt this way since childhood.

...the only "inner child" that's involved with this is one who I want to be rid of, or at least teach how to be like me.

I'd rather feel something uncomfortable than feel nothing at all, because what's life if you don't feel?

You know that wanna be rock journalist kid modeled after Cameron Crowe in Almost Famous? That was me.

I was like a kid set loose in the world's biggest candy store.

...when the rejection letter eventually showed up I wasn't surprised at all -- it had become inevitable.

...learn who you really are and what you really feel. You'll love yourself for it.