Change Is Scary

Change is a part of life. You change jobs, living situations, cars, cell phone providers, the list goes on. For some, CHANGE is to be avoided at all costs. Change is scary. Who really needs those fancy cell phones anyways, rotary dial phones work just as good, right?

Change happens, and dealing with, and processing it are important. There are 10 words that I like to use to sum…

Hungry To Work

The mud on his boots was thick, thick and slimy. His pants were tucked into the tops of his boots at mid-calf, duct-tape sealing the boots to the jeans for the frequent instances when the mud got deeper than the boots got high. The faded denim hung loose around his bony hips and streaks of dirt changed the color to a dull brownish hue. The old t-shirt he had on…

The Girl At The Beach

The girl sat on the beach and gazed out at the horizon, a long blue line stretching from left to right, fading away as it passed the limits of the human eye. In the foreground a few fishing trawlers slowly plied the waters, their nets like giant wings stretched out to either side just like a giant ungainly bird. The waves broke where the water met the sand, sand so…

Garage Sale Diehard: Live Free Or At Least Get It Cheap

One man’s junk is another’s treasure; I’m sure you’ve heard that before. Well it’s true; believe it. How else can you explain people waking up at 5AM on a Saturday so as to be the first to arrive at the garage sale that starts at 6AM in the next county? Is there really any reason to roust yourself out of bed at such a painful hour in order to have…

Just Do Nothing

Jamie realized she had to do something. The man was pointing the gun at her head. It was not an accident she was in this situation, she had known the man was there, in fact a friend had warned her just a few minutes earlier that “the crazy guy” was in the park again. Being impatient, and not wanting to take the long way home, Jamie had cut through the…