The Boy Virginia Made Follows Through (Part 3) |
When I last wrote, I had every intention on completing this series of following through . However, since Ive started it, I have been either too busy to dedicate time to this, or have been too lazy t...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:44:00 GMT |
The Boy from Virginia Follows Through (Part 2) |
The day after I turned 24, I was big on making To-Do lists. For some reason, I felt like I was being more productive than just sitting around all day, and it focused me. For example, I planned to go t...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:43:00 GMT |
The Boy from Virginina follows through (Part 1) |
Without the appropriate words. That is the state Ive been in for the past couple weeks. But an author friend of mine told me that all I had to do was start writing and the right words would just come...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:39:00 GMT |
The Boy from Virginia Remembers (Part 2) |
I find that since Ive begun this New Year, Ive done way more reflecting than Ive ever done. Maybe it has to do with the promise I made to my grandmother, or maybe it has to do with the fact that si...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:47:00 GMT |
The Boy Virginia Made Remembers (Part 1) |
I entered into 2009 without any slogans or little mantras (where the last word rhymed with the number nine). Instead, I was asking the question, how dare any of us think our problems are more importan...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:52:00 GMT |
My Journey to Happiness (written December 18, 2008) |
Friday will end my first term here at the academy. My second one will begin January 12th. I am not returning to America during the interval, but instead looking for work and a reason to rest because,...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:49:00 GMT |
An American Guy in Scotland |
On my first Thursday in Glasgow, I found myself sitting in a position that I did particularly care for: alone, in a restaurant (a Pizza Hut, mind you) watching the rain. This is such a typical vision...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:42:00 GMT |
The Grandmama Blues |
Wednesday evening, I received a phone call from my mother saying that my grandmother, who has been on dialysis for the past 6 years and who was just diagnosed with bone cancer last week, had been ad...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:19:00 GMT |
A Crushing Reality |
So it happens like this: it's my final weekend in the city and I'm at either a house party or a very distinguished lounge in Center City and I run into a bunch of my friends from college. We're all da...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:45:00 GMT |
You-Lie the Fourth |
For as long as I can remember, Independence Day has always been a day to depend on cookouts, family fun, and most of all fireworks. A person did not completely experience the Fourth of July without t...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:09:00 GMT |
