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I’ve just finished reading Goat by Brad Land for one of my classes.
Ouch. That’s what I say. This book hurt my soul to the core.
Maybe it’s because I understand him far more than anyone should. I’ve been there. I’ve done crazy things.
He writes:
…I know [...]
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“The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.”
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
There are entire sections of my life that I can’t remember; years during my twenties that are either entirely dark or are so hazy that it is useless to rely upon them for any [...]
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She writes,
“I think no one would stay with me if I allowed myself to be who I am, and so I don’t, and it’s the daily hiding that’s so hard, so tiring, and so lonely.
How do you keep the monsters from touching the ones you love? You don’t [...]
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I religiously read the blog of an online friend every day. It is raw. It is the dirty underbelly of society that we often close our eyes to and that we refuse to see even though it’s there. It is pain. It is love. [...]
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We are reading Jarhead in one of my classes this week. We are looking at prospective audiences, themes, reasons for the writing, reasons for reading, types of language used, etc. I love all of these kinds of things. I love healthy debate over literature and like [...]
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The future is blurry (as it always is). Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has resigned. Justice William Rehnquist has now passed away.
Where we had a somewhat moderate voice in the reigning court of the land, we now have upheaval and uncertainty. Will the rulings of the highest [...]
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I knew this was coming. I could feel it somehow.
There was an 80% chance that it was going to happen again anyway.
I know it’s “just skin cancer” but it happens to be the worst type of skin cancer: malignant melanoma.
I went in for my regular 6 month check-up [...]
