I have a friend who has been having a good go at life recently. This person has been very happy, and has been making that apparent to her Facebook friends by posting her glee on the “LOOK AT ME” (AKA as the Status update). Yesterday, this friend posted a status update chastising her friends for their [...]
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August 29th, 2009
August 24th, 2009
The other day I began this story about my favorite hat. I explained how I got the hat, how much that tattered treasure means to me, and how I came to the heartbreaking decision to finally retire it to prevent it from falling apart. Now it’s time for me to explain why I call the hat the [...] August 20th, 2009
It was October 2001 and my platoon was on a field rotation at the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) in Fort Polk, Louisiana. For anyone who has ever been in the Army, you are probably very familiar with what training exercises like JRTC are like. The rotation lasts almost a month, with about two weeks of [...] August 18th, 2009
On June 30th I posted this entry describing the interesting way that memory works. The point was well made then, and I don’t need to remake it now. I think we all understand that The Persistence of Memory is a strange thing…
La Persistencia de la Memoria
Today, I encountered [...] August 7th, 2009
According to many sources, the ratio of four-leaf clovers to the more common three-leaf variety is about one to 10,000. Now, I don’t know who counted, but for the sake of this entry, let’s just take their word for it. Now, that number sounds staggering until you put it into perspective. The odds of you dying in [...] June 18th, 2009
I was watching the television while sitting on my makeshift couch. It consisted of a large denim pillow (about four feet by three feet) that I had purchased at Wal-Mart. It was very simple, but it was comfortable. Looking back, I can see that it was an early indication that I would eventually develop an affinity [...] April 7th, 2009
I can’t believe I let it go this long without noticing how vulnerable I was with unsecured windows. I might as well have left my doors wide open Well, I’m fixing both. The windows are locked and the doors [...] |
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