Have you ever considered that you go through your entire life without ever actually seeing yourself? Yes, you can see a reflection and yes, you can mirror that reflection but you never actually see yourself as people outside of you see you. At the very same time, no one but you can see or be […]
From C to See Ya Later
I have been working since I was 11 years old. I had a paper route for the Coop city times at the start of it all. They would drop literal bales of papers for me to cover 3 apartment buildings with 12 apartments on each floor and 30+ floors of drop offs. I would get […]
Thank You for Being Candid
People say to me all the time how much they appreciate my transparency. They thank me for my honesty. They thank me for being open. While I appreciate people recognizing that I am being open, it is difficult to understand why this is a thing. Are we in place now where everyone is lying and […]
What I heard about Poetry ~ I don’t know
I was recently at an event where there was a speaker sharing his personal experience and perspective about how poetry impacted his life and the lives of others. He asked us to look at ourselves in the mirror and find the words both within ourselves and through the words of others experience life. While admittedly, […]
The Real Fight Club
The contract human beings were bound to through the generations were based on rules to enable the survival of our species. Regardless of how anyone feels about religion or common laws, these rules generally exist to make it so that we exist. History teaches us that we will always have people pushing the boundaries of […]