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I'll stir the black forces

Most mornings, I look out my hallway window and watch the sky turn bright rust.  I’ve always loved the early morning sky-glow: All the words yet to write and ideas yet to learn swell inside of me – a rising… 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 →

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 →

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 →

Yellow flowers are trying to kill — 2CEUs

There’s these yellow flowers that populate large swaths of land and turn vacant fields into carpets of yellow.  I run past no less than three (3) of these yellow fields within a short two (2) mile stretch.  But, though their… Continue Reading →

Discussion on the nature of Addiction — 2CEUs

For me, addiction is a multi-layered disease in accordance with the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s definition, “Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological,… Continue Reading →

The duality of addiction has got to go — 2CEUs

The best villain in the comic book world, to me, is Two Face.  He was once a kind and heroic District Attorney, but after being doused with acid on half of his face, he turned into one of the most… Continue Reading →

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