O.H. in the E.R.
I was at home one recent Saturday night when all of a sudden I started feeling some punch-you-in-the-gut-and-beg-for-mercy type stomach pains. After about an hour of it, with no real relief in sight, I...
View ArticleEverybody Loves Presence
I was thinking. There are so many times when I’ve had insomnia, have been up late, or just plain was paying attention where I’ve noted that friends of mine post things automatically. I like to comment...
View ArticleTo Be (Re)Purposed To Death…
If you follow along, you’ll recall that I posted this: To Be Purposed To Death in which I describe my unhappiness at being affronted by all these networking events which turn into “cause”ups. I took a...
View ArticleNot 10,000 – Just One.
Leagues, that is. Have you ever been around something so intense that you almost feel that you are out of your elements, a friendship so great that it’s intensity becomes addictive. A moment where you...
View ArticleRoadkill… A Hierarchy
The other day I was out running along my normal route when a couple things happened to me that I really wanted to share. These things only reminded me that there is a food chain to everything. Now,...
View ArticleNational Coming Out Day?
It’s once again National Coming Out Day. I meet this day with trepidation every year because I think that many people feel pressured to come out and do so fairly publicly. Coming out is a very personal...
View ArticleCrossroads. Help Me, Pathfinder!
I’m at a crossroad with my education. I am getting close to graduating with my Associates of Business Administration degree. (YAY!) However, I am also looking at what the future holds for me. (Used via...
View ArticleWhat My Blog Says About Me.
Lets be honest. I don’t put a whole lot of thought into my blog. I don’t have an editorial strategy of what I’m going to post. I do, however, put a lot of “me” into this space. The sub-theme, “Heaping...
View ArticleTo The Moon, Alice.
*blows off the dust* I haven’t blogged in 2012 over here. Wow. (I’ve been focused on posting a daily quote and daily photo over at schnik.it I could say that I have been extremely busy, and It would be...
View ArticleWhat Goes Unsaid.
There’s so much power in tone. Maybe too much. You probably wouldn’t imagine this, but I’m an over-analyzer, an over-thinker, and sometimes even an over-feeler. As you’ve seen from my other blog:...
View ArticleQuote of the Day – Bill Watterson on Thought
Bill Watterson, arguably, had one of the greater impacts on my life growing up. Every day I grabbed my parent’s newspaper and stretched out with the funny section, always saving my favorite, Calvin and...
View ArticleQuote of the Day – Kurt Vonnegut on Laughter
I was in a conversation on twitter yesterday with a very nasty and pretentious woman. She was eager to butt into a conversation not of her making, with no idea who the participants were, and proceeded...
View ArticleQuote of the Day – Stephen Sondheim on Writing
Now that school is out for the summer, I really hope to get back to writing, that is, should I have any adventures worth writing. You’ll see them. The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the...
View ArticleQuote of the Day – George Weinberg on Not Giving Up
When things are hardest, that’s when you have to press on, cause that means you’re in the lowest portion of the arc and things are going to get better. A good friend of mine is going through some...
View ArticlePlanning to pack my bags…
I’ve been thinking about my departure from the City of Roses for quite a while. It took not only some soul-searching, but some real searching to come to a conclusion of where the heck I may want to go…...
View ArticleA New Schnikism: (Poetry Series) Maybe
Maybe I don’t know, What this is all about? Maybe I don’t know, How to get by without? Maybe I don’t know, My real path or route? Maybe I don’t know,...
View ArticleA New Schnikism: (Poetry Series) This is How I Rise
I am strong enough, I keep trying to be stronger every day. I am loved deeply, I keep telling myself this so I don’t lose the horizon. I am hopeful every day, I keep...
View ArticleA New Schnikism: (Poetry Series) Facing the Firing Squad
They took their aim, With their pointed judgement. Their faces of scorn, Eyes with blank stares, While they all laughed, At the subject of their jokes, While I tried to remain, Loving and calm, To...
View ArticleA New Schnikism: (Poetry Series) As We Go
No, I don’t know, Though I’ve searched high and low, Who I really am? No, I do not know, Where I will go. None of this life is part of or pre-planned. I continued to search, From coast to coast. From...
View ArticleA New Schnikism: (Poetry Series) Chasing Stars
Am I in control, Of this life I live, Of these plans you do not give? Why am I still I’m searching, deep within my soul? What must I accept, in order to complete the next phase? Where is my...
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