It’s Spring. Time to box up the winter sweaters, open the windows, and air your life out. In the Spring of 2007, I was living alone for the first time in my whole life and decided it was time for a massive Spring Cleaning. This story is called “Out with the Old” it was written [...]
As Fall settles in, the leave change to brilliant orange and red. The baseball season ends; football kicks off and I am left scratching my head when people around me ask about who I think will win any given game, I am reminded of my history with sports and how, as a child, I was [...]
Throughout the generations, people have expressed their anger, their joy, their confusion, their indignation, their pain, with expletives and adjectives that bring a curtain extreme tone to their point. These very same words, when uttered by children, send parents past the threshold the rational thought and straight for a bar of soap. This story was [...]
From 1999 until 2002, I worked for a summer enrichment program at Children’s Home in Iowa. Working with youth in need was far and away the most rewarding job of my life. These children, through their bravery taught me about life and love, hope and faith. In 2005, I wrote a 4 part story cycle [...]
Leaving school with a performance degree is always a tricky thing. You are filled with hopes and dreams that your name will be in lights in no time… then reality crashes down on you, your bills are due, your checking account is overdrawn, your credit cards are maxed out and the only food left in [...]
The Big Apple, The city that never sleeps, A town so nice, they named it twice. In the summer of 2006, I spent a week in New York City, visiting friends, seeing shows, but mostly to be a tourist. Little did I know I would experience an awakening; a renaissance.
In 2006, the people of this nation voted for change when the Democratic candidates overwhelmingly took over the house and the senate. This was a clear message to the powers that be that the American people were fed up with what was going on; the war, the fear, and an ignorance of human decency that [...]
Every October, high schools, colleges, and universities celebrate a homecoming. This gives their alumni a chance to come back, see a football game, and visit with their friends that they may not have seen since they graduated. For me, this has always been a great opportunity to see how old, bald, and fat people gotten. [...]
Going to the dentist is something that people, young and old, fear alike. Between the sound of the drill, the sterile smell of the clinic, the scraping of teeth with sharp metal instruments or the panic that you feel when you realized that you probably having flossed as much as you should have, the anxiety [...]
One of the most important things in a fathers life is his legacy. The values and traditions that were instilled in them by their fathers hold special meaning and urgency to pass on to their children. Unfortunately, sometimes their kids are resistant to bare the family crest. In my family, the tradition is fishing and [...]
