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Like it or not, we are all connected

I’ve spent hours watching spiders spin webs, wait, and then blast anything that lands in those webs with a shot of venom.  Maybe I need some hobbies, but spider watching is among the most beautiful sights in nature to me. … Continue Reading →

To Hell with bad juju — 2CEUs

When looking out into the ocean, I can’t help but feel overwhelmed.  I know that if I tried to swim out into its unknown secrets, I’d be swallowed and I’d never return.  Can get to me: I have no that… Continue Reading →

Petey the dog ain't just another loudmouth — 2CEUs

Every time I run through a particular alley, there’s this little dog that attacks me from a hole in his fence.  His head pops through and his vicious round head snaps at me.  There’s really no way he can reach… Continue Reading →

We all should have a personal ethics statement — 2CEUs

My sense of ethics grew from an early experience that happened when I was around nine years old.  Considering the fact that I had started catechism four years prior, it would seem that religious education would have drilled some sort… Continue Reading →

From the mouths of substance abusers — 3CEUs

To me, addiction is layered, complex, and difficult to understand.  Those layers and difficulties provide obstacles to treating those afflicted with the disease.  Plus, in looking at family and friends within the addict’s circle, the challenges grow exponentially.  However, in… Continue Reading →

Do flowers lament? — 2CEUs

I’ve always wondered if a flower sees another flower and then laments something about itself, based on the other flower.  I wonder if an orange flower wishes it were a purple flower; or if a flower with a bunch of… Continue Reading →

My new book, Journey to Aztlan, Available 10/28/13!

Journey to Aztlan is the powerful, inspirational, and heartwarming story about how one man overcame life-threatening Depression and found love. Juan Blea was ready to end his life.  Depression had claimed his soul and left him seeing few options for… Continue Reading →

The public schools system is a prideful villager — 2CEUs

Jose Marti was  a revolutionary who was ahead of his time.  He said: “The prideful villager thinks his hometown contains the whole world and as long as he can stay on as mayor or humiliate the rival who stole his… Continue Reading →

Trees can tell stories — 2CEUs

Trees have been used to describe families for as long as there’s been families and trees.  Just last night, someone, after asking how people at a function were related, took a deep breath and said, “Family trees can be so… Continue Reading →

Change is a battlefield — 2CEUs

While I know that there are few situations in life that are either on or off, that knowledge doesn’t prevent me from wishing there was a big magic switch with which we could change a person’s behavior by flipping it. … Continue Reading →

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