Recently I had an exchange with someone that went like this.
“How was your fifty mile run?’
“It went really well. After I finished the run I threw up for three hours. It was great!”
It was great? I thought about that statement for a couple of days afterward. Here was a seemingly lucid man…
In southern West Virginia during the late 19th and early 20th century there was really only one good option for work. The coal mine. The coal mine meant hard work, black lung, and a steady pay check. If your granddad worked there, your dad worked there, and guess what? You were going to work there too. Seemingly there weren’t a lot of choices. In times past children were expected…
Your inner Clark Kent isn’t a bad guy. He’s easy to get along with, he keeps his head down, doesn’t cause trouble and gets the job done. He shows up between 8 and 5 Monday through Friday and pretty much everybody likes Clark. The problem is Clark knows what it’s like to be Superman. You see your inner Superman shows up sometime after 5pm and on the weekends. Superman has a fantastic time doing everything else except…
On the outside you appear as stoic as Clint Eastwood but in reality you feel like Dr. Doolittle let his hamster collection loose in your large intestine. As you …
Starting something new can be fun, exciting, scary, and downright hard to do. Creating this blog was all of those things and I’m completely thrilled to get my first post …