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First Posted 14-Apr-2015 Listen, them that are trash talking you because you are different don’t know their history. The popular kids are the ones that end up holding signs on street corners because they had it good and when things got hard they lost it. You who are a swanContinue Reading

Checkmate

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First Posted 15-Apr-2015 I’m one of the good guys. I believe that everyone I deal with will play by basic rules I don’t have to worry about. It makes me very nervous to think about an opponent who isn’t polite, won’t behave in expected ways, and may not be inContinue Reading

Bully

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The King James version has Exodus 20:13 as “Thou Shalt Not Kill.” The ESV has it as, “Thou Shalt Not Murder.” What do you do with a bully? There is also Matthew 5:38, “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’Continue Reading

Beautiful Woman

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First Posted 20-Apr-2015 Here I am, in my house, in the daylight before my next shift as a rideshare driver. I’ve made a good thing, a mostly stable life living in a rented house, with the inventory that many in the world would call wealth. I have good friends IContinue Reading

Young Hottie

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First Posted 21-Apr-2015 This happened repeatedly in college. It continues to happen. I meet somebody, there are sparks, chemistry, emotional heat. I want her. I want her to want me. Flirting happens, there are some dates, the moment when it’s soaring violins and time to kiss the girl and .Continue Reading

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I said love disrupts. We don’t get to keep our same same each time we start a relationship. Things change. Some old dies and something new is born out of that an “us”. We like to say God is love. If love disrupts and god is love, ∴ God disrupts.Continue Reading

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First Posted 23-Apr-2015 Yeah. Truth. Kind of a no brainer, right? I mean, truth is fact, yes? Isn’t natural law self-evident? For the guy that prompted this post, natural law is beyond debate. Heh. He said that to a story-teller. He said that to me, who spins tales of emperorsContinue Reading

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First Posted 28-Apr-2015 There are two women in this story. Names and details have been changed to protect the guilty. The first woman is Bree, married, a ginger, very adept at looking good and lucky to have a wealthy husband who enjoyed her skills. She was his trophy wife. HeContinue Reading

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I’m going to bite that hand. In this space, it’s what I do. I watched my Mom approve welfare for her clients as I grew up. I know the social safety net exists. I’ve benefited from it over almost four decades. Over 10 years ago or so I came toContinue Reading

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First Posted 30-Apr-2015 Il n’y a pas de nouvelles histoires. You can skip this blog post and go watch “Misery”. It’s pretty much the same thing. Though, “Misery” is better than this post. Moving on, if you read this blog regularly then an “us” can grow out of the wordsContinue Reading