Category: Raw
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Independence
Today is July 3rd, one day before Independence Day. I always kinda liked July 4th as a kid. It was the first big holiday after school was over and we always went to my aunt and uncle’s house and swam in their pool. It was always a good time with good food and average company.…
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Daily Prompt 6/8/23
I didn’t answer this question right away because I thought I’d answered it awhile back. I didn’t and I was thinking of a different prompt. So my tagline would be: Calm in chaos, scrambled in calmness. It’s crazy how when the shit hits the fan, I am calm inside and ready to handle the pressure.…
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College Reunion
My college reunion was this past weekend. I didn’t go. I did attend my wife’s last year. But there’s so much I can’t seem to get over with my class. There’s people I can’t stand and people that I’m sure can’t stand me. I was so different back then, so unhealed. I was with the…
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Stop holding it all in
(Mental note to self-it does not help you to hold in your emotions. You know this. You have learned this lesson repeatedly over the last three or so years. Just stop already!) I woke up yesterday and right away I knew I wasn’t feeling like myself. Something was off. I was cranky but for no…
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May 30, 2007
Sangin, Helmand province, near the Kajaki Dam…one Chinook helicopter is shot down, supposedly by multiple rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). I was there, 30K+ feet above it all. We moved to assist the recovery operations. The helicopter had been on fire when it crashed so there were definitely no survivors. Then there was an ambush on the…
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Unpopular Opinion
I saw Dear Evan Hansen last Saturday. I knew it won a bunch of Tony Awards. I knew it was well loved and very popular. And I did not like it. I loved parts of it, I must admit. There were some great songs. The acting was really good but the characters weren’t as developed…
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Daily Prompt 5/26/23
I also want to say that I have no possessions that matter as much as the people and pets in my house. But that’s inaccurate. There are a few things that I wouldn’t want to lose, like my computer with all of my writing from the past 2.5 years. I also wouldn’t want to lose…
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Not Today
For the first time in weeks, I have nothing I HAVE to do today. No appointments, no commitments, no soccer practice, nothing to do outside of my house. What a wonderful gift of a day. May has always been hectic because it’s the end of the school year where I’ve lived since I had kids.…
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Daily Prompt 5/21/23
This prompt is funny to me because I don’t work fully. So there’s not a ton of balance that I need to do between work and home life. But in the past, I could not balance work and home life. My work life always had the potential to completely disrupt my home life and there…