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Archive for January, 2012

He now knew he had two flame-outs, the engines were toast since he had flown through that flock of geese and sucked a few of them through each turbine. He had a plane full of souls over a city full of souls, every second counted. He didn’t have time to think, there literally was no [...]

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Hello friends, Some of you have been wondering where I have been, let me just say 2012 has been an action packed year so far. A little over a week ago, I had surgery to repair the rotator cuff on my left shoulder, leftover damage from my mountain bike wreck last spring. Unfortunately when they [...]

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“God will never give you more than you can handle”. How many times have you heard that phrase before, or used it for that matter? I will be honest, I have never liked it because I think it is meant to give us false comfort in thinking the threshold of our endurance must be close, [...]

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I had a dream that I am going to be your boss one day, the cocky young man said to us as we all stood silently, our jaws falling open at the flagrant hubris the young buck displayed, neglecting the many years of experience before him. The silence only hung in the air for a [...]

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He was restless as he thought about the last leg of his journey into hostile lands. He didn’t know how he was going to be received by the lord of the land he was entering, they hadn’t left on the greatest of terms when they had last parted. As he sent the last of the [...]

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Authors note: Hello, I don’t do reposts often, but I originally wrote and posted this last July. For some reason, this post, which of course is fiction based on fact has taken on a life of its own. It has by far been the most popular post I have ever written, itself getting 700 hits [...]

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2012, a time when many people throughout the world examine the previous year and look to the coming one. Upon doing so, they see in hindsight many places where they wish they had done better, so along comes the inevitable “new years resolution”. New years resolutions in many cases involve weight loss and or a [...]

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I drove into the city in the late afternoon the day before New Years Eve. A thick layer of smog covered the bottom of the mountains, leaving only the peaks exposed. This happens sometimes here in the winter, today it is worse than I have seen in many years, you can smell it. Traffic is [...]

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I love the Christmas holidays, but there is a part of me that secretly (most of the time) cannot wait until they are over and life returns to normal again, and this year was no exception. Christmas for most is a busy time, and can run us to our ragged edge trying to keep up [...]

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Old Joe looked off toward the sunset and remembered that day, and what he was thinking when he was first given the orders. “What ever happened to asking for volunteers” he thought as his mind raced. I was sitting there, minding my own business and He just came up and told me what to do. [...]

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