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I Like to Be Here When I Can
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing Day 18: “Home at last” Under the best of all circumstances, home is a place where you can hide away from all of the tiresome pettiness that mucks up the quality of your days....
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The Ballad of Shudo
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing Day 20: “The Other Shoe” I do and say a lot of things that end up pissing off my fiancé, Diana. Most of the time, it’s deliberate. Over the years since Diana and I have been...
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The Station at the Edge of the Great Unknown
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing Day 21: “Last Train” A man sits on a bench alone on an empty underground train platform. He sits in silence with none of the customary sounds around him of footsteps,...
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Clarity of Mind
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing Day 23: “Absurd” Saturday afternoon, I found myself alone for the first time in what will soon be my new home. Up until that point, I had spent the better part of the day...
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Chinese Philosophy
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing Day 24: “Confucius” So the prompt for today is “Confucius”, huh? Eh, no thanks. This one feels like a trap. It’s bad enough that, every time I’m forced to play that horribly...
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Just to Set the Record Straight
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing Day 25: “Fact or Fiction” Fiction: It is so knee-slappingly hilarious whenever somebody refuses to use a plastic bag because they want to “save a plastic tree”. Fact: Every...
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A Concession to Catnaps
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing Day 26: “Deal With It” I was planning to write something good tonight. It was going to be sincere, highly readable, and full of poignant humanity. Best of all, I was going to...
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I’m No Good at Long Goodbyes
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing Day 28: “Is That All?” Here we are on the final day of the month-long writing challenge for February 2013, “30 Minus 2 Days of Writing”. Frankly, this whole challenge was a...
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Getting Old is Fine
I admit, I might have grumbled once or twice about getting old ever since I turned thirty. As time goes on, it’s hard not to notice that my youth is swiftly becoming an artifact of the past. The music...
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The Perfection of Mediocrity
Let me start off by apologizing for falling off the face of the Earth. My last blog entry was posted just over two weeks ago — but from the feel of things, you’d think I’d been away for three months...
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A Forgotten, but Familiar Tune
There is a line in that old Outkast song, “Rosa Parks“, that has long been echoing in my mind since 1998. Said baby boy you only funky as your last cut You focus on the past your ass’ll be a has what...
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Busta Rhymes Owes Me Fifteen Dollars
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing (2014) Day 7: “Hint, hint” Back in 1996, I was a young kid in high school navigating the turbulent waves of adolescence when the now-legendary hip hop artist, Busta Rhymes,...
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The Silence of Futile Screams
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing (2014) Day 10: “Zombies” Day 11: ” Succubus” For years, I’ve been revisited by a recurring dream that always leaves me unsettled and frustrated when I wake up. I guess you...
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With Apologies to Tony Horton
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing (2014) Day 12: “One bite” Kevin’s Inner Monologue: I’ve really let myself go these past few months. I was doing so well last summer with P90X until the wedding happened,...
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Motivation Fail
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing (2014) Day 13: “Incommunicado” In the offices where I work, there is a motivational poster hung on a wall which has bothered me since the first day I saw it. I wish I had a...
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You Shall Not Sit
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing (2014) Day 23: “There are things” There are many things that need to be said. Unfortunately, this February has been an especially busy month for me, and I haven’t found...
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TMI Tuesday #1: On Keeping Warm
30 Minus 2 Days of Writing (2014) Day 25: “Social Media” I don’t have much to say right now about social media, but today’s writing prompt has gotten me into an oversharing kind of mood. So today on...
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On Meaning, Entropy, and “Meh”
20 Days of Chill Writing Challenge (2015) Day 1: “Spilled Milk” Ah hell, I don’t know what to say anymore. All I ever seem to do is repeat myself, which is mainly the reason why I’ve stopped writing...
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“How’s law school treating you?” read the text message. I kept my cell phone off all day until classes let out at four in the afternoon. Carlos had sent me the message at ten in the morning. I stared...
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It’s a little after the fact, but I’m still feeling the holiday cheer. It’s a genuinely good feeling. I remember the days when I still considered myself a Catholic, and December carried with it a...
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