"The future is not set."

"There is no 'fate' but what we make for ourselves."

-various Dystopian movies about killer cyborgs from the future

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I enjoy movies for their own sake. Ever since I was a little boy, movies have been a way for me to escape from the realities of life when I've been troubled, or needing to find a bit of inspiration for ( Read more... )

Most of the time, I'm a pretty happy guy. I know I have certain things going for me, and for the most part, I'm pretty comfortable in my own skin. God knows I still consider myself having a ways to go lol, and I'm the type who will probably always be interested in bettering myself in some way or another.

Now having said that: At the moment, I'm... ( Read more... )

Birthdays tend to become less important to us as we get older, and I think I've figured out why.

When we're five years old, each of those years counts for 20% of our total life to that point. That's huge. But when we hit 20, each of those years only counts for 5% of our total life to that point. Not so important. By the time we hit 50, each year is ( Read more... )

I went to my (16!) year old daughter's dance/musical production at Red Bluff High last night, they called it "Higher Ground" this year. Wow!! Everyone was just great (can I get away with calling a bunch of high school girls "sexy"? lol), there were some touching moments as well - I was so happy to go!
Was thinking last night about having had kids as ( Read more... )

I wish I was better organized. My brain is constantly trying to keep up with the flood of information I give it to deal with every day-I picture it like a huge fridge, with a metric butt tonne of Post-It™ Notes stuck to the door. Things get missed that way; I've just never really been very good with a non-memorized system, even though the memorized ( Read more... )

Fear is natural - healthy even, at the right times. It's part of our animal instincts of self-preservation.

Sometimes though, fear gets the better of us. When that happens, we can fixate on it so strongly that it stops us from actually living, or loving, in the first place. Fear can protect us from harm, but it can also harm our spirits and deny us ( Read more... )

So for the past few months, I've been part of the Rocky Horror Picture Show cast in Redding, California. They put on a show once a month in Red Bluff, about half an hour south of Redding on Interstate 5. It's always a big show, usually get around 100-150 people at each one and it's always a great time. For those that don't already know, I met the ( Read more... )

Good grief, I haven't made a blog post in weeks! Months!! (slaps self around)

Well, let's see. Jess and I have been working through some things, we're talking and laughing more than we used to at least and she continues to surprise me with new sides of her that I hadn't really known were there before, even after all this time. I really do love her ( Read more... )

I pilfered this from someone's MySpace profile ( Read more... )

As I sit here listening to one of my best friends in the next room, just singing and playing on her guitar, I can't help but think that music truly is the soundtrack of our souls.

No matter what mood we're in at any given time, it always seems that there is just the right piece of music for it - a song, a tune, a ditty, a dirge. Something to make us ( Read more... )