Tag: Hope
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Writer’s Block Nearly Killed Me
I had a two decade-long writer’s block and didn’t know it – until it tried to kill me. It nearly did. We’re talking literal inches between me and a city bus moving at speed, trying to make a light. This was three days before Christmas 2016. My writer’s block had long since metastasized into a…
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Every Day, I Feel More & More Hopeful; Here’s Why…
I’ll own it straight up: between a mood stabilizer & copious amounts of THC (we’re talking “COPIOUS”), I walk around most days in a state of perpetual bliss. But I do not, for two seconds, ever forget that I live in a shithole of a world. I live in the most fucked up times imaginable.…
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Here’s The Question: Is Integrity Dead?
You can chip away at a lot of things — and still have them. Living in California as I do, ‘Paradise’ comes to mind. There’s that lyric to that great Eagles song (the last cut on ‘Hotel California’) “The Last Resort”: “They called it ‘Paradise’, I don’t know why… Call someplace ‘Paradise’ — Kiss it…