The only bone I've officially broken is my thumb (and there's A Dumb Idea story coming for that one).

( But I think I unofficially broke my leg once. )

I was with my step brother on the banks of the Des Plaines River in Northern Illinois. It was wintery enough that there was some snow, and ice had started forming along the banks of the river where the water wasn't moving as strongly ( Read more... )

I don't know what it is about me and water and almost dying ( Read more... )

It was one of those moments that made me think, "This is it--I'm about to die..."

It's not something a twelve-year-old should think.

The infamous "they" always say it: "Never swim alone."

But I wasn't technically alone--I was at the beach and under the care of a sixteen-year-old lifeguard more interested in the sixteen-year-old boy talking to ( Read more... )

It was a simple plan: we'd run away ( Read more... )

I will watch anything that happens inside a ring: boxing, mixed martial arts, and wrestling. The first play I ever started writing (one of two unfinished plays...the other started and not finished with mfelps), takes place in a boxing ring. I guess I get it from my dad ( Read more... )

I was chatting with a work friend about bad haircuts. I listed all the bad haircuts I've had (from shaved head to stuff rivaling The Missing Link (imagine the poof of hair in the back as a thin, braided tail of hair about eight inches long instead and you have my worst/best hair style, depending on your tastes). Talking about goofy styles, I ( Read more... )

I stood before the mayor of the Village of Mundelein, Illinois as he stared at the jack-o-lantern. ( His eyes shifted from the jack-o-lantern at my feet, to the one beside it. )

Why is everything funnier when you have a mouth full of liquid?

darthcynthia and I are watching the Edmonton/Carolina hockey game. Edmonton has a player named Radek Dvorak (yes, Dvorak--just like the simplified keyboard for the techie geeks reading this). I got up to get a drink of water and Cynthia said, "Dvorak...what a name. That's not a human name-- ( Read more... )

( Tales of Humiliation! )