Don't Take Drugs Unless You Plan to Make it a Habit
I was in a bad car accident last October (100 percent the other guys fault), but I was t-boned at an intersection and suffered head, neck and foot trauma, including the inability to remember my date of birth, or my name when asked at the ER.
Oneonta Confidential
After a weekend of heavy drinking and general unhealthy activities, I drove back from Oneonta on a Monday morning without going to the bathroom first
Support The Troops
There have been some e-mails going around about supporting our troops. I'd like to put my full and complete support behind this. I fully support our troops in the U.S. military.
I Hate Horse Creek, Kentucky
No, I don't hate it because it's a bad place, although it is. I don't hate it because it's a place of rural blight, of crumbling despair, although it is that too.
Friday Nights Were Supposed to be Better than This, Charlie Brown
The new computer desk is supposed to arrive on Monday, to match with the rest of the baby furniture (that's how it works - baby gets two-thirds of the extra room, I get the other half).
There But For The Grace Of Joe Go I
I guess one of the great things to have when you're in your late teens is a guy who has a car, is willing to drive drunk, and is actually good at it. Joe was that guy.
Just Leave Me In Bakersfield
We all have childhood dreams. Adolescence and adulthood often cause us to jettison these dreams, dismissing them as silly, or worse, as forgotten relics.
Ben Franklin and the Eldorado Redemption
We went out to dinner the other night and I ran into an old friend that I hadn't seen in at least 15 years
The Person Currently Living Who I Would Most Like To Meet Is David Berkowitz
I know, I know - serial killers. Yawn.
Hyper Hospital
Many of us get sick, and most have endured the occasional hospital visit. Most of the time we leave better off than we came in. This is not one such hospital.
This World Is Full Of People Who Look A Lot Like Gavin McLeod
It must have been summer, because it was still very bright when I got out of work that Friday. Three seasons of the year, people tend to trudge out of work.
You Don’t Look So Bad - Here’s Another
I enjoy what I do for a living, but it has never been my first choice. I always wanted to work with teenage runaway girls. Work closely with them.
My Special Moment (Do You Believe in Magic in a Young Girl's Heart?)
Less Than Jake played at The Chance in Poughkeepsie last night.
War Heroes
"People would cry if they'd seen what we've done
But we'll be war heroes when we get home."
You’ve Got A Retarded Friend in Pennsylvania
It started off as a nice December day, but as if to portend things to come on my journey, I'm driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in a full-on hailstorm.
O.C.D. - It’s Not Just a River in Egypt
During the umpteenth attempt to clean off my computer, I found almost 300 newspaper articles I apparently saved concerning the 1987 rape/abduction hoax of Tawana Brawley and the subsequent trials.
I Take Sip of my Coffee First
Regular readers (ha-ha) of my blog will probably notice the feminist bent in much of my writing. I am a feminist.
My Dad Gets The Last Laugh
The wheels of Karma may turn slowly, but they do grind so exceedingly fine.