o/` "Me an' RJ an' the kids was on a camp-out in the mountains, and we had us one'a them U-Drive-'Em Army Jeep cars which we rented from a fella by the name of Kubozke for thirty bucks a day, buy your gas along the way, take a rabbit's foot and leave a pint of blood for a dee-posit ( Read more... )

o/` "I used to adore you
I couldn't control you
There was nothing that I wouldn't do
To keep myself around and close to you

"Do you have an opinion
A mind of your own
I thought you were special
I thought you should know
But I've run out of patience
I couldn't care less" o/`

----- "Special" performed by Garbage ( Read more... )

o/` "I was always in a fight
'cause I can't do nothin' right

"Every day I fight a war against the mirror
I can't take the person staring back at me
I'm a hazard to myself

"Don't let me get me
I'm my own worst enemy
It's bad when you annoy yourself, so irritating
Don't wanna be my friend no more,
I wanna be somebody else" o/`

----- "Don't Let ( Read more... )

There's a quaint parable, sometimes attributed to various Native American Tribes, which goes something like this:

The Perfect Heart

One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley. A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not ( Read more... )

The dream is always the same ( Read more... )

As you may or may not know, my grandmother died last Wednesday. This made necessary an emergency trip out to Colorado. Initially we began with a vain hope that we might somehow magically bridge the distance before she passed from this world. That didn't happen, of course, and our frantic trek West to bid her a final goodbye became a funeral ( Read more... )

I've always hated introductions --- too little time in which to condense a life which, to some, probably looks like the world's weirdest rodeo. Eight seconds? Try thirty-six years of riding the most unpredictable, dangerous, devious bronc and knowing somehow when the whole thing comes to an end you've simply got to stick the landing. I've been ( Read more... )