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
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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
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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
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Auld Lang Sine

If you live expecting difficulty, you won't be surprised when you encounter it. ...
January 3, 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Diversity

It is the diversity of opinion and experience that makes a group stronger - IF it is willing to discuss...
August 12, 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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