Entry date: 3-9-2022 - The End of the Origin (Hillbilly-style) - Letters to My Friends
Dear Friends, Coming back down to earth after a wild ride on the BART and a great Dead show was difficult for me. I was up. Artie and...
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This is a place where I can share who I am and things I write during 2022. Will it go beyond that? I don't know. My goal is to add about 1000 words each day to the blog. Sometimes it might be the truth and sometimes it might be something I made up. I just don't know yet except to say that as of now, each is a first draft and reflect my thoughts at the moment I sit down to write.
Dear Friends, Coming back down to earth after a wild ride on the BART and a great Dead show was difficult for me. I was up. Artie and...
Dear Friends, You’re probably thinking, “Okay, man. How did you get to ‘Hillbilly Devilspeak’ at a Dead show?” To that, I say,...
Dear Friends, Today is Rhondi’s birthday. To try and sum up what I feel for her in one thousand words seems way harder than writing a...
Dear Friends, Yesterday I left off with meeting the guy who might have an extra ticket so here goes... This dude looked like he would be...
Dear Friends, People used to ask me all the time how I came up with the band name, “Hillbilly Devilspeak.” It’s an interesting story, so...
Dear Friends, So, yesterday I started a story and today I’m going to finish it. Disneyland Death Trip part two… The rest of our drive...
Dear Friends, The spring of 1989 was formative for me in many ways, but to be honest, none of them very good. I was on a path to...
Dear Friends, Frustration is a fun feeling, right? Thus is the life of a second-grade teacher. On Monday, I stupidly attempted to show my...
Dear Friends, Over the weekend, I spent some time listening to the Damned. They always make me smile and it occurred to me that I have...
Dear Friends, I am almost 2/3 of the way through my first year as a classroom teacher. As I look back on where I was at in the beginning...
Dear Friends, The news of the last few days has made me think of watching the U.S. bomb Iraq in 1991. I think I had a 19” TV in those...
Dear Friends, Do you like elephants? What about elephants in a room? Do you like those? Since the beginning of this process, I’ve been...
Dear Friends, Trying to get in the mind of a hallucinating Fonzie was harder than I thought, but I think I’ll stick with it and see where...
Dear Friends, Part two of the Fonz Drops Acid… Because the Fonz has jumped sharks, battled the Devil, battled Mork from Ork, and been up...
Dear Friends, I had this idea as I looked at my bookshelf and saw a paperback book that I picked up somewhere years ago. The title of the...
Dear Friends, Like many of you, I used to plan out my Saturday morning cartoon watching when they would announce the new lineup each...
Dear Friends, We’ve come this far so I should probably finish the story of POWER. The next two days after I set the stage of what a...
Dear Friends, The department of health services was in charge of doling out VAWA (Violence Against Women Act) funds and Casa was...
Dear Friends, I feel like I should continue the Casa story as I am afraid these programs are going to disappear forever. At one point, we...
Dear Friends, It makes me sad to share that Casa, the agency I worked at for over 15 years of my life and was involved with in one form...