Two Sides of One Mind
As a kid growing up in the Midwest, I looked forward to winter. Living in a neighborhood with lots of kids, we would build snow forts and dig snow tunnels. We would have massive snowball fights and sled down the nearby hills. The downpour of white powder held endless possibilities for fun. It might have been cold, but with the […]
Read moreI found an eight page book of poems from sixth grade in a box of my old stuff. It is titled, The Great Poem Book!! Reading through the content makes me laugh. The poems are in many different styles. I assume they were based on specific assignment criteria. This one is a poem about the Sega Genesis. I choose to […]
Read moreEnd of the year lists can be hard. Anyone who pays attention to music knows the enormous amount of releases in a year. Though a large percent are mediocre or not worth the time, it still leaves a chunk of good releases worth checking out. It is difficult for one person to discover all the best output in a year […]
Read moreOut of all the events in my life, divorce has been the single biggest thing to shape me as a person. I am sure that anyone who has been through one of their own is not surprised by that statement. Divorce is hard. It is brutal and unrelenting. Divorce rips a person down to their barest form, and makes them […]
Read moreI have been writing poetry in one form or another since grade school. Though I prefer writing long form fiction, there is something cathartic about putting my thoughts and feelings down in a poem. I wrote this poem towards the end of 2008. My marriage ended, and I had fallen hard for someone new. I penned the poem as a […]
Read moreFor most of my life, I would have considered myself an avid gamer. My parents introduced me to the Atari 2600 at a young age, and I was swept up in the magic of video games. In time, we got an NES in the house. One year, I bought a Genesis with birthday money, and I can remember saving up […]
Read moreIn my early twenties, I wrote articles and reviews for an unknown website called Clear Vision Gaming. Not surprising, the website is no longer around. The editor-in-chief started the site for fun, and the writers were not paid for their time. We did it because we thought it might lead to something bigger. It never did. We were young and […]
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