A Lame Survey I Turned Awesome

In winter, would you rather wear jackets or hoodies?
Old suit jackets I bought for $3 at Goodwill, for the following reason: awesome
Do you wish you were somewhere else right now?
I’d rather be in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, Outer Space, or The Fifth Dimension, in no particular order.
How long [...]

Old Words About A Sunday Morning

One day, years ago, I wrote the following, stream-of-consciousness style, immediately upon waking. Something about crapping out a sort of story out of my subconscious while still in a half-asleep daze makes me smile. Here it is:
She wore a robe of burgundy and gold. Her home was made of felt and porcelain, satin and ceramic. [...]

Remembering the D.C. Starbucks Murders

With so much tragedy in the world, it’s easy to become jaded, and unless you can identify with a particular story, these tragedies are easy to ignore. The only news story that’s ever haunted me was the triple-murder at a Starbucks in D.C. that happened during the summer of 1997.
The other day, I saw an [...]

Family Trees

Consider the following scenario:

You're born in England.
You marry an Englishman/woman.
You decide to move to Puerto Rico (perhaps its the sun).
There, you have a child.
The lot of you move to the U.S.

Old

I’m getting old, not because I’m nearing 25, for that is quite young, but because I’m [...]

200 Years Ago…

Right now, I'm leeching an unsecured Wi-Fi conneciton up in one of the very few areas that has already gotten power back up, so I'll make this post quick.
Hurricane Wilma hit South Florida as a major hurricane (Category 3), but nothing even remotely close to the level with which Hurricane Andrew hit us. Despite this, [...]

Thirteen Years Later…

Almost exactly thirteen years ago, I found myself barricaded in my home behind pounds of exceptionally strong aluminum, family members rushing about keeping themselves occupied, the weather radio blasting its garbled play-by-play. Behind the galvanized aluminum fortress and above the chatter in the house, you could still hear the rain and the wind pounding on [...]

Homeowner

People my age have virtually no prospect of leaving home, let alone owning their own. In an age of “irrational exuberance” and an out of control real estate boom, becoming a homeowner has become little more than a passing thought, something relegated in people’s plans under the category “someday”. Being a homeowner is the anchor, [...]

INTJ

At a friend’s request, I took a personality type test this afternoon in unison with that said friend. It turned out to be one of the Myers-Briggs-esque tests based on the Carl Jung personality type model. This was familiar because I had taken one of these tests as an assignment for an business class a [...]