Mental Purgatory

As I’ve done in the past, I’m hoping to use a song here to elaborate on something I’ve been thinking about. Okay, in this case, I hadn’t really thought about it and instead, just had the song stuck in my head. However, listening to the lyrics, I couldn’t help but think how powerful they were. [...]

In the list of random questions I’ve had, this one is the latest. The basic premise: If prostitution is illegal, why is porn legal? If I pay a woman to have sex with me, I get arrested, but if I pay her to have sex with me while I record it, it’s perfectly legal? Whaaaaa? [...]

Our Creative Writing Selections return in this very rough draft. I went to the park the other day and while sitting down, decided to write this piece. It hasn’t seen a single revision, I’ve never even read it myself. I’ve simply taken it from my journal, typed it onto my computer, and placed it here. Inside, I provide a little more context as to what it is and what I was working to achieve with this post.

It’s an idea you see all over the place. The movie Butterfly Effect was all about this idea. There was a TV show that lasted about three episodes (just long enough for me to realize it was great before they turned it off), called Then & Now that dealt with the idea. You hear the [...]

So this post is inspired by something Orson Scott Card does. Each week he posts a review of random things from restaurants to movies to books to who knows what. Of course, he does it in lengthy discords that include tangents about life, the universe, and everything in between.
Me? I’m not going that far. Instead, [...]

The other week at school, someone posed the question of “What song describes your life?” Being a huge fan of music, I thought about it for a while, trying to think of what song fit best. Finally, I settled upon Tony Rich’s “Nobody Knows It But Me.” For the uninitiated, I’ve included the song below:

While [...]

This is an issue we all have to deal with in our lives at some point in time. The gravity of the situation might vary but you’ll still be faced with a situation where you’ll be forced to break “the rules” in order to do the right thing.
Where can this come up?

Friendships. When you’re friends [...]