defining moment

Remember the Sunsets…

As the warm glow of 2010 begins to set over the horizon of time, I think if only fitting that I tell a story about involving sunsets and happy, fairytale endings. Minus the fairytale part. There was no kissing of frogs involved.

It was October and things were tough. Hell, when aren’t they? Anyway, this particular financial struggle involved my vehicle registration on top of everything else in my life. I was so broke that I hadn’t paid my registration fees (I was six months overdue) because I could not […]

When Hope Is Lost…

I have occasionally referred to my “year of hell” in previous blogs. That was a twelve month period of my life—beginning in February 2001—within which I moved out of my parents’ house and into a situation that tested my wits and my faith before I stayed with a close friend that nearly assaulted me, ending that bond forever. It was so filled with drama and marked an important chapter in my maturity that the only reaction to this terrible time in my life was to label it as a […]