He says "I can't do this anymore ( Read more... )

no one is ever gonna understand me, and honestly, i have given up hope for that.

It's been done before ( Read more... )

Is there a such thing as a true good deed?

When one does such a thing there undeniably exists an option of telling others. This can have several repercussions, none of which more unlikely than another.

1) You tell someone else. This could happen for a few different reasons. Let's say you're a really awesome person, even before said selfless event ( Read more... )

How Fluid is Gender?

I myself must be careful not to fall into the traps that have been laid out before me. I read that at some point this year, my innate interest in furthering my musical taste will taper off (although I appreciate the fact that this evolutionary took longer to develop full than my physical being and all zones of my brain ( Read more... )

a quarter century later and i am starting to understand why i am not "successful" at anything.

It's because I like too many things!

One lifetime simply is not enough to be a expert: ceramist, green activist, social worker, choreographer, restaurant owner, guidance conselor, music video director, writer, film reviewer, crime solver, musician, ( Read more... )

we have invented so many cool things it blows my mind: telescope, automobile, air and water purification systems, heart monitors, binoculars, tacos (yes, tacos ( Read more... )

its not rocket science. if you are in the inner cities where gangs rule the streets.... DONT HAVE KIDS. BREAK THE CYCLE.

im not denying that privledge to anyone but if youre in the bronx and think your boy will grow up on the straight and narrow, its not gonna happen. when you can afford to get off welfare and get someplace else and start a famly on ( Read more... )

Names have been changed.I get ahold of my dear friend Ruby early on a Sunday morning. I have been going through my phonebook, wishing any of the numbers would ring me first and calling myself when they do not. Just a bunch of machines. When I ask and she says she doesn't work, I am both relieved and nervous. All of my emotions begin to form like an ( Read more... )

the sun illuminates the whiteness of my binder. in the daylight it looks so artificial in a world of real color, the rich green of the grass sprinkled into a soft popping contrast of the yellow flowers. though they are beautiful, i dont know their name. even though there are no puddles, the earth still feels damp when i lay on it long enough, like ( Read more... )