Some people can’t manage their thoughts, their thoughts manage them, leading to more alcoholics, drug addicts, depression, obesity, anorexia, child molesters, some diseases, and gays. In order to complete this picture, we must see the commonality in all people. Can we correct these behaviors? If not, nature does have variety. The only way to work [...]
At sixteen I attended a seminar on Smoking – How to Quit, a compulsory meeting held in the gym at the high school I was attending. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ I was the girl standing by the split rail fence just at the edge of the school property smoking with the other {boys} kids that had taken up [...]
I was out in the back yard shooting baskets with some of the boys from the neighborhood. It was a crisp, sunny fall afternoon, sweatshirt weather, and I was feeling great about life. I had finally gotten the knack of the jump shot, and was really proud of myself.
One in four children are being abused right now. If they are lucky enough to make it what is their life going to be like.
In the fall of 1990, I was meeting with two other men on a regular basis to explore our dreams and aspirations. Every two weeks, we would gather at a Chinese buffet and talk for several hours about things we’d like to do some day. It was around the time of the Men’s Movement, where [...]
I’ve went over this day a million times in my head. It always starts off with that red dress. The way Sharrica walked. The tears in her eyes. The ones I didn’t see until I looked in her heart. Years later. Then comes my man, walking behind her. When I see them together today he [...]
When I joined the Royal Air Force one of the first thing’s that was required was for me to sign the Official Secrets Act, everyone who works within the Governments has to sign it, so my question is this, do politicians sign the act and if so why has not one of them been prosecuted. [...]
Can a work of fiction ever have real validity in dealing with the weightier issues lurking in the dark recesses of the human animal? I asked myself that when I was challenged to ‘justify’ some of the real-life horrors that feature in my debut crime fiction novel ‘BiteMarks‘ – an excerpt of which features prominently on [...]
Went to maximum security prison yesterday for weekly group. Only there for about 3 hours, but time seemed irrelevant. What was relevant, was the insight, wisdom and life experience shared by those present for the meditation class. Issue of anger, grief, revenge and killing came to surface and how people have dealt with those feelings [...]
For many of you this article will be too provocative, too disturbing and simply unpopular. For the faint of hearts, stop reading now. Beginning with the infamous 2008 indictment of Casey Anthony for the homicide of her beautiful toddler to the recent South Florida tragedies including the parents that brutally beat their three year-old child [...]
