Being just shy of forty-five, I have worked a lot of jobs. A lot of jobs. I started working when I was a teenager, doing occasional yard work for a neighbor for $5 an hour, which at the time seemed pretty amazing. From there I worked with my sister cleaning a couple offices my dad… Continue reading The Dark Days
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Spooky Chris Episode 5 – Follow Your Passion!
In which I talk about following your passions and such.
The Mystery
There is something about childhood that, once lost, it changes how you see the rest of the world. We can call it magic, mystery, or anything else but it's that that in us that doesn't understand everything...and it's OK. As we get older want more control, we want more agency in our lives and as… Continue reading The Mystery
The Change
In this rapidly changing world I think we tend to lose sight of the fact that we want and oft times demand things of people at a speed that is unreasonable. We want to put the past on trial every few years, looking at it with new eyes and new social and cultural viewpoints and… Continue reading The Change
End Times
2018 will be a year that sticks with me for many reasons but the biggest is the loss of my mother, something we knew was coming but which, as they say, you are never prepared for when it happens. With mom it was a slow decline that we could only bear silent witness to. It… Continue reading End Times
The Only One Screaming Is You
I think it's pretty obvious to say that American society is at a breaking point. People will argue that, saying that it's Fake News and that things are fine and all that but these are also many of the people who are tuning out things that upset them or disrupt their vision of how the… Continue reading The Only One Screaming Is You
Letting It Go
It's a heck of a thing to be able to walk away from the last word. To close your mouth, push your tongue against the backs of your teeth, and to set your jaw firmly. Harder still when you feel, as most of us do from time to time, you have been wronged. I HAVE… Continue reading Letting It Go
Our Lonely Gods
Since the beginning Mankind has looked to the great Other for guidance. It was a Creator, or a Punisher. Or an an all seeing Eye that We have always looked to something else/someone else for guidance. This is not a dig on religion at all, because the needle of faith, the heat of faith, can… Continue reading Our Lonely Gods
Good Grief
Grief is a different monster for every person. To some it is robed and silent, watching from a distance, for others it is hulking and ever-present, pushing in on every breath. Everyone experiences it and it’s lifequakes differently. There is not a right way to go through grief and until you get into self-harm and… Continue reading Good Grief
The Truth
So this here is a true story, with, obviously, the name of the person I am going to refer to removed. I don’t write this thinking it will change someone, or change how they see the world, or change their mind on what they believe. I write these blogs, as I have said, as my… Continue reading The Truth
Where We Come From
All of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, come from somewhere. Some of us hold where we come from in high regards, spouting off to whomever will listen about our grand background and lineage. Others of us will act as if we sprung from the darkness fully formed, tied to nothing and owing nothing… Continue reading Where We Come From
Battery
Every once in a while you run into the end of your path and your left facing impassable brambles. It happens to everyone ad you have two choices, go back and find another path, or forge ahead, pulling at the brambles and making your own bloody path. Either path can be the right path, in… Continue reading Battery
Room For One More
In Hell, there is always room for one more. Always. Hell will take everyone - come one and come all. It is Heaven that is exclusive. Heaven as gated community, choosing only the best. Ah, but who are the best? Good question, no? That part is a sliding scale that pushes the boundaries out, and… Continue reading Room For One More
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 