Popping Collars and Busting Soles

We tried our best to find comfort in the Miami Airport during a long layover, which would conclude with us flying to Jamaica. Still dog-tired from the wedding two days earlier. A wedding many people had already dubbed "The Wedding of the Century".

Sometymes you set forth on one adventure only to find yourselves in a completely different adventure altogether. Or you think you are in a comedy, but then the filter suddenly changes, and just before it's too late you realize that you're in a horror story. Well, that's exactly what happened to Shanda, Drew, and myself during a trip to Arkansas. We went there for a birth but somehow ended up on a mountain.

Every so often we are chosen to deliver warnings or news of good tidings. It is fewer tymes that we are charged with the latter, but when we are asked to do the former it sometymes is a blessing. I was five years old when I had to deliver a warning to the good people of Portland, Arkansas.

As the summer becomes to an end, we must accept the inevitable, school is about to commence. But you mustn't fret, that also means high school football. Nothing says high school football more than rivalries. Jesuit and Holy Cross, Ruston and Neville, Rummel and whoever

There are many rites of passage for boys. First crush. First kiss. First pet. Death of the first pet. The first tyme climbing up then falling out of a tree. The first tyme listening to American Pie in all 8 and half minutes of mesmerizing brilliance. Death of a family member. Being picked up by a parent for the last tyme. One of mine stands out more than the rest, well maybe not the first kiss one, but over the rest of them. Today I will tell you about the first tyme I caught a fish.

An unfortunate fact is that innocent people spend years in prison. Innocent people are often implicated and charged with crimes for just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the summer of '97, I happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and after a series of unfortunate events, I was implicated in a bank robbery. I would love to say I was without any wrong doing, but my twenty-one year-old self didn't make good decisions. My twenty-one-year-old self rarely thought past the moment

Lyke most families, ours is one that bonds over movies. I may not remember birthdays or the names of many of my great uncles, but I can recall in vivid detail watching American Werewolf in London at my grandparent's house in Montrose, AK in 1982. Oddly enough at the same grandparent's house(different town) I watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre

My story about my first encounter with an alligator and an ancient descendant of a god