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After an exhausting couple of days this weekend, I sat down to watch Hustle & Flow. I remember having seen posters for it when it was out in theaters, before the Golden Globe/Oscar buzz set in, and thinking it would be your typical tale of an aspiring MC looking to “Get Rich Or Die Trying”. […]
Well, this weekend was an absolute nightmare. Our daughter Brynn was diagnosed with epilepsy late in 2004 after she had three seizures in three weeks. All of her tests were normal, and we were basically told that when they can’t explain the seizures, the diagnosis is epilepsy. They prescribed two years of treatment using a […]
deep rooted inspiration
breaks thawed earth
stretching in languid yawn
with out-reached green-leafed zeal
yearn against the chill of sullen winter
young thoughts wrestle in
rough tumble fashion
pinning one another down
in mock dominance
words wind ways
through once
ice-locked bedrock
in quiet babblings
my sleepy-eyed mind shudders
shaking off ambivalence
as though witnessing life
for the first time
We’ve had a lot of sun here lately. It’s been really inspiring; […]
I figured I should preface this one with an explanation. It’s an older poem that I wrote back in Minnesota. Its inspiration was a statue that I have that looks like the one above. As is my tendency, what appears here has been slightly modified from the original version. In particular, the last line has […]
…if you sit down to watch Doom hoping for something with substance, you’re just setting yourself up for a fall. This is no deep, meaningful experience, but rather a 90-minute reprieve from reality.
you are manifest trouble
with that mischief glimmer
dancing the ring of your pupils.
my darling little imp,
you are far too aware
of your power over me.
with your heart-melt smile,
your look-at-me antics
of lop-sided somersaults
and lean-to hand-stands,
your incessant button-pushing,
and your utter disregard for silence,
you are a screaming, wild-eyed terror.
Don’t you go changing on me.
This morning I was thinking about Brynn […]
The Corpse Bride is a lively film that is as endearing as it is beautiful.
I apologize for my absence. I was struck with a pretty nasty flu bug last week, which paved the way for a horrendous sinus infection that had me laid up for the better part of the past four days. I can honestly tell you that I cannot recall the last time I was hit so […]
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