I met her on a Monday I met her on a Monday, and she didn't have a name. She was only referred to as "Blue-Eyed Baby". Soon, despite my objections to having a pet, she would be my blue-eyed baby. It was my first night volunteering at the cat rescue shelter. My ex-girlfriend had invited [...]
I was on Twitter one day when a company reached out to me. Their name was KNot Cause and they told me they created bracelets that supported mental health as well as bullying, cancer awareness and Multiple Sclerosis. Immediately, I was intrigued and I asked them if I could see a sample. So they shipped [...]
The lettuce is bruised. It's the wrong kind of lettuce - Romaine instead of iceberg. You bought cabbage and thought it was lettuce because you are a moron. The lettuce expired. It wasn't lettuce, it was green yogurt. You thought wrong. It was a lettuce robot dressed like lettuce. The lettuce was actually a robot. [...]
In 1999, I headed to Western Canada to escape the drudgery of small-town Atlantic Canada. In the hometown, unemployment was high and morale even lower. I was fortunate to end up in Canmore, Alberta where I boarded with a family who would have a major impact on my life. When I first landed at their [...]
There are some scents that remind me of times in my life. I was walking down Bergen Street and I smelled clove cigarettes. I was brought back to being 15 years old and just entering Performing Arts High School. I remember leaving school at 3 o'clock and smelling that sweet smell on Amsterdam Avenue. I [...]
Dear United States Postal Service, First I want to say thank you for delivering the mail. I am so grateful to you for being there to give me my important bills and sometimes even nice cards from my friends around the world. Sometimes you deliver checks with money for me to buy my family groceries. [...]
Build People Up You know how to help someone? Motivate them. Tell them "you can." The reason they haven't achieved a goal is not because they are lazy or unmotivated but rather they don't feel that they have the strength to do so. Depression is an evil ugly monster that stops me from doing a [...]
Choosing to go your own way in life is not always an easy decision, and sometimes, I think it doesn’t always come about by conscious choice. There are so many things that occur to us during the course of a life, can we ever really account for all of them. Where do I start, to [...]
