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Incurable Insomniac
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Life takes on a different personality at 4 in the morning. Everything's softer, clearer and often more absurd. Working nights as a composer and author I've found that sleep is highly overrated and takes too much time from observing the true nature of Li
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Judge Not
Three times every day, come rain or shine, a fellow who lives across the corner from us walks the same route. He leaves his house, crosses the corner, and walks down our street to a certain house at the opposite end. He's always smoking a cigarette, ...
Crack Up-a-Doodle-Do!
I don't remember how it started, or what I was looking for, but around 2:00 this morning, after writing a little on my book, I came across a video on YouTube of the Steve Allen Show. It was taped, I'd guess, around 1968. The video was of Foster Brook...
The Online Sad Sack Parade
Lately, it seems I've met up with a number of people who can't, or won't, pick themselves up and improve their situations. I'm not talking about people with physical issues or actual depression (God/dess knows that I've battled both over the last dec...
Accepting Love
Whenever I find myself in a difficult situation or experience, I try to ask myself, "What is it about love that I'm not learning?". Sometimes the answer is a bit convoluted and I have to dig around a bit to find it, and sometimes it's looking me in t...
Afraid of Death? Not Anymore!
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The November of My Life
The other night as I sat here writing, I looked down at my hands and noticed that they've suddenly aged. I held them up and really looked at them, recognizing how much they look like my mother's hands. I've also noticed lately that my hair isn't as t...
In Praise of Naps
“Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice - like a beautiful, softly swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.” Peggy Noonan Is there anything in life more precious than an afternoon nap? I’m not talking about the 10-...
15 Things I'm Learning During Our Financial Crisis
1. How to make 4 large ice tea bags stretch to make several gallons of iced tea. 2. That vegetable oil works just as well as olive oil, and when the vegetable oil is gone, I can always use butter or margarine. 3. How to cut...
Nightmares and Dreams
I didn't have a lot of nightmares as a kid, which is strange due to the kind of childhood I had. In fact, I never really had nightmares until about 20 years ago. I sometimes have an old familiar nightmare about being hunted, usually by WW2 enemy forc...
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To Live the Life Authentic
"I will live authentically, accepting blame for my mistakes as well as praise for my triumphs. Judge me if you will, but judge me for my dedication to living my own truth." - Steph WallerMany years ago, I had a dream in which I found myself in a room...
Doppelganger
What if you could meet yourself? What if life got so difficult that another you popped out to handle the crap for you? I'm not talking about something as logical as multiple personality disorder, I'm talking about an actual double.For some things, it...
