Here Comes the Rain Again
The rainy season in Guatemala, like life, is late to arrive, fast and hard when it comes, and in charge of nearly every plan I try to make.
Your Call Is Important to Us – Tales from the VA Virtual Town Hall
A North Texas veteran sits through a VA virtual town hall engineered to fail. No agenda, four callers, and every real question shunted off for "personal follow up.
Love, a Secondhand Emotion
I don’t remember being in love. I was thinking about it the other day, thinking about when the ex and I started dating, and I don’t remember the feeling I must have had of being in this all-consuming passion for another person.
Music Roulette 7 – Reality Sound Bites
Music is a powerful, accessible memory cue. Therefore, I am setting the shuffle loose again for another round of music roulette to resurface my deep memories. This has been helping me recall personal experiences and process the emotions that are clogging my memory storage. Especially since I don’t have my journals on hand for me to scour for memory triggers. Part of a midlife renewal plan, the music based therapy part of my sabbatical. I’m going to let the music do the heavy lifting again. Here we go.
Insane in the Men Brain
I hate people. Which is ironic considering I volunteered myself to be in this council to try and help my neighborhood.
