It’s hard to keep the light on these days, internally as well as externally. Yeah, the economy sucks, and gas is high, and jobs aren’t suddenly paying the worker bees more and the CEOs less. Things are hard. Inside and out. The inside is dealing with the stress of a job you may not like… Continue reading The Darkest Days
Tag: society
Entitled
I think it’s pretty fair to say that all of us, at one time or another have felt entitled to something. That doesn’t mean that the entitlement came from an ugly place, a place of selfishness, but that we felt we deserved something because of who we are. For example, you, as a human, deserve… Continue reading Entitled
End of Days – blog
You hear it a lot but things were simpler when I was a kid. It’s not that there was no established internet, or streaming services, or faux-lebrities that found fame because of a stupid viral incident. No, it was that the world outside of the high school and towns I grew up in seemed so… Continue reading End of Days – blog
Ill
It feels endlessly cowardly that after every mass shooting now the same excuse is pulled out for it - mental illness. Mental illness has become a catch all bucket to throw all of our old fish in. Man beats a woman, oh, well, he’s mentally ill. Woman kills her kids, oh, she’s mentally ill. Boy… Continue reading Ill
Enough
The day after another mass shooting in the United States means that we’ll have another week of news, another week of one side saying it’s too soon to demand change while the other side demands gun bans, and another week of asking HOW and WHY without even really trying to answer that very question. This… Continue reading Enough
For Educational Purposes Only- blog
When I look back at my school days, I can’t say I look back at them fondly. I wasn’t great in Kindergarten, finding myself and what it was like to be in school and around so many kids. I had been in a sort of preschool, but it wasn’t like it is today and… Continue reading For Educational Purposes Only- blog
Validation – blog
Humans need validation. Whether we like it or not. As isolated as we may make ourselves, we want, we need to be seen. We need to recognize, even if just to see that we want to be alone. Humans are, even today, a social species that needs one another. I know that as much… Continue reading Validation – blog
The Hills We Die On
I will never tell anyone I am the smartest person in any room I am in. I will never tell anyone I am better than them because odds are really great, I am not. And I am not going to act as if my beliefs should be the standard for what all others believe… Continue reading The Hills We Die On
Just What We Always Wanted
You get the feeling that this old coal cart is speeding towards broken track? Sure, we might jump the gap and come out on the other side just fine and zoom off into the distance. Or we could tumble over into the abyss, never to be seen again. That feels like where we’re at,… Continue reading Just What We Always Wanted
Trust Me, This Is About You- blog
It's easy to think that I have always been bullied in my life when I was younger. It wasn’t always like that, but it feels like it. High school was hard for me. Heck, school was hard for me. I believe I missed around 122 days of school during my high school career. Saying that’s… Continue reading Trust Me, This Is About You- blog
What Do You Know? – blog
Are you like me and really, really feel like parents that make a scene about what their kids are learning should have to pass some sort of competency test before the matter moves forward? Am I crazy? Naw. I doubt it. Now, I am sure that through the ages there have been parents who have… Continue reading What Do You Know? – blog
What If It Wasn’t About You?
There’s a thing about we humans, we modern beasts of blood and clay, where we often, so often, forget that it isn’t about us. This world and the people in it are not here for our amusement, for our enlightenment, or our acceptance and understanding. We forget that we may have come to the party… Continue reading What If It Wasn’t About You?
A Participation Award For Caring
Sometimes I wonder if we don’t need participation awards for something as simple as caring or giving a damn since so few of us seem to do that anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can tell me that things aren’t different, times haven’t changed, and that nothing is new under the sun but I think that’s… Continue reading A Participation Award For Caring
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 