Worth dying for
Life oscillates between obscurity and celebrity, but true fulfillment emerges from struggle rather than comfort and wealth, driving us towards...
February 27, 2024
A Sneak Peak Inside Two Cluttered Minds
Often times we try to fix one thing in our life, and get focused on it. At all other costs,...
February 8, 2024
Snow Day
I used to search like this in Afghanistan, every metallic hit could be something I did NOT want to find....
January 17, 2024
Auld Lang Sine
If you live expecting difficulty, you won't be surprised when you encounter it. ...
January 3, 2024
Why do I try so hard?
I feel this burden of “journalistic integrity” when I write for Mental Grenade. It’s kind of insane really. I have...
December 8, 2023
Fishing for Change
Fish stories, life and family, world travel and tragedy, the conversations wax and wane mixed with periods of quiet. The...
November 14, 2023
Mind. Blown.
Stop letting people manipulate how you feel. Very few people EVER tell the truth, much less the whole truth, and...
October 27, 2023
Challenges
I've been blessed to survive a bunch of stuff and still be living, so I want to help give these...
September 25, 2023
Maine attraction
We spontaneously started a hike we didn't know would take us more than three miles around Jordan's Pond. It's enjoyable...
August 22, 2023
Diversity
It is the diversity of opinion and experience that makes a group stronger - IF it is willing to discuss...
August 12, 2023
Your place or mine?
Have you found your place in this world? Ever felt like, "I don't belong here." or "Why am I still...
August 1, 2023
South Westerly
I’ve seen people. Different people, different locations, different cultures, but all people. Are we looking at the person or the culture...
June 17, 2023
Change the Well
There's so much that came before this. Years of not trying, but thinking I was. Convincing myself that life was...
May 5, 2023
Life is a race
I spend a lot of time thinking about things and get stuck in my head. It might make me difficult...
April 23, 2023
Rumination on Rumi
The gun, the mind, life, conflict. Should I invite this anger in? Should I let it clear me out? Do...
March 31, 2023