It’s spooky season again, but this year I’m thinking that the scariest thing is how many people I know that are really struggling, how many are a missed paycheck away from some really horrible outcomes, how many cannot meet basic needs, how many are right now facing a horror story worse than any ghost, goblin, […]

Fall has returned to our radars and so has Fall allergies. For me it’s kinda funny because besides knowing I’m allergic to dogs and cats (and honestly not caring one bit), I did not have a lot of seasonal symptoms until living for over a year in Knoxville, Tennessee where the locals claim: “If you […]

So I spend a lot of time writing about things that happen to me and how I perceive them and at times that is to be expected, as most of us ‘scribblers’ base their writing on personal experience. Writing also lets you examine other people the way a painter might examine the subject matter of […]

Imagine you’re hearing a horrendous discord of sounds, a sonic sting so grating that you want to plug your ears. The sound is very deceptive, because to most people hearing said sounds they would say they are not that bad, in fact they may even dismiss them as a slight annoyance, a mosquito to be […]

When it comes down to it, except in some extreme circumstances, everything in our lives is not only completely under our control, but down to nothing more than the effort we put in. Problem is, today many people struggle with the needed effort to make their dreams become reality, they (or rather we) have trouble […]