Category Inspirational

THIS IS NOT AN INSPIRATIONAL POST
Okay, maybe it is. This is, however, my “publication,” and I am allowed to do whatever I want. Yes. Even use reverse psychology on people who are particularly subversive to anything and everything inspiring. (But why?! I forgive you… jerk.) It’s the day after Labor Day Weekend, and according to my unverified Twitter poll, the […]

Bull-ieving in Derrick Rose’s Story
I am not a sports writer. I leave that up to my friends at The Bench Mob Blog. (Really, they’re great. Check them out.) I’m a writer who loves basketball, the NBA to be exact. And to really get down to a T, the Chicago Bulls. If you follow me on Twitter, this should come as no […]
Lost and Found
I’ve struggled. Over the past months, maybe even year, it’s been very difficult for me to put my feelings into words. And it hasn’t just been “a bad case of writer’s block.” Not just a wall. Not simply a slump. It has been, in fact, some weird, impenetrable energy field that I could not pass through […]

His room. My room.
When my grandfather passed away, I moved into his old room. It had the best sunlight in the house. “Very cheery,” my mom would say. After his wake, family friends visited our house to pray and show their condolences. Half serious and half playful, they asked me, “You’re going to sleep in your grandpa’s room? Aren’t […]