Life & Culture Category

Crazy Chronicles (1)

Category: Life & Culture

Most people who know me understand that I have a “crazy” magnet. I’m so not kidding.

If craziness is happening within a 10-mile radius, I will be at its epicenter.

So due to this trend of craziness, I’ve decided to create a funny off-topic series about real life craziness that I’ve witnessed.

Seriously, you just can’t make some [...]

Flashback Friday (8)

Category: Life & Culture

It’s the August edition of Flashback Friday where I share events from my own life during my kid and teen years.

Down here in the Atlanta area, school started on Monday. The bus stop is right in front of my house and it was mixture of happy kids running in circles and angry kids kicking at [...]

Master Writer

Category: Life & Culture

Wow, what a CRAZY week it’s been!

My weekend is going to be great because I’m FINALLY getting furniture delivered my house this afternoon. For those of you who have been following the blog, you may remember when I donated most of my furniture to a single mother and her family in February.

So now after four [...]

The Ant Nebula

Category: Life & Culture

For the new subscribers of the blog, I sometimes go off-topic on Fridays and share my geek love of all things space.

The Ant Nebula is one of my favorite pictures from the Hubble Telescope.

This nebula resides in our galaxy between 3,000 and 6,000 light years from Earth. NASA released this image in Feburary 2001.

To me, [...]

Flashback Friday (7)

Category: Life & Culture

While looking for this month’s Flashback Friday subject, I came across some of my clippings when I was a writer for my high school newspaper, THE EXCLABILUR: The Sword of Truth.

It brought back lots of memories too. Plus, I didn’t know I had written so many short stories for the paper. It now dawns on [...]


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