Posts Tagged ‘divorce’

Natalie Goldberg and the Accidental Buddhist

I just started re-reading a book I haven’t read in at least 20 years, Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. I find it absolutely kick me in the nuts jaw droppingly amazing that despite the fact that I haven’t read this book since 1989 I remember it. I remember everything in here. [...]

The Long Dark Night of the Soul

I’ve been trying to sleep for the last hour and a half.  It’s about 3:30 in the morning.  I fell asleep around 8:30 tonight, according to Esther.  I don’t remember, precisely. 
I got a letter from my grandmother today wondering if I was OK.  She hasn’t heard from me in a while and she is [...]

Therapy and Meditation

In early 1995, shortly after my wife had beaten cancer and my mother had given birth to my baby sister Jasmine, I was feeling as if I were at my wits end from stress. I bottled up anger, bitterness, sadness, and even joy just so I could maintain a calm demeanor in the middle [...]

The Obama Bitterness Non-Controversy

I am currently in the mood to rant. If you don’t want to read a rant, I apologize, but I’m going to do it anyway.
I was listening to the radio this morning and some guy was on there trying to stir up controversy over Obama’s recent remarks about the fact that it’s not surprising [...]

God As I Knew Him – Part 4

As I chronicled in Parts 1, 2 and 3 of this series, God and I had a long rocky relationship. We went from good buddies to uncomfortable partners to, ultimately, distant relatives. The end came far more swiftly than I had ever imagined possible.

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A History of My Guitars

And now for something completely different…
When I was in 4th grade I decided to follow in my big brother Rhett’s footsteps and join school band. He had played percussion and I chose french horn. Now, if you know me you know I am not a french horn player but rather a guitarist. [...]

Cognitive Dissonance

A few years back, after I came out of the Watchtower Society, I read a book about propaganda techniques. It discussed the various ways that politicians, marketers and religious leaders used mind-control techniques and mental sleight-of-hand to get people to vote for them, buy their products, give their money, and the like. A [...]

9/7/2007 – The Lavone’s Final Studio Album “Isotope” Available on iTunes!

Here are the liner notes:
If somebody had told me in the year 2000 that Isotope was going to be the final studio album by The Lavone, I would have said they were crazy. It seemed at the time that Isotope was a peak, a resurgence of our band. The gigs we played in [...]

The Lavone

Sometimes I can’t really believe that The Lavone is history. Right now is one of those times. Yeah, The Lavone was a band, but it was a band in the way that your mother is a female. Which is to say, it’s technically accurate but fails to convey the whole story.

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something’s disgusting around here…

I am so digusted by you right now Ryan, I can’t even express it! What happened to your wife & child? You think you’re being ’so original and true to yourself’ when in actuality your just following along like a mindless lemming because you found a woman who has you by the balls. I guess [...]