Monthly Archives: November 2002

Laying Down a Burden

Mom was right, as always.
It doesn’t make it any easier to take.
All along, I thought I needed to do graduate school to get ready for seminary. It was a wrong-headed thought process, really. I stuck it out long enough in my class this semester to prove to myself that I could [...]

What Shoe?

One of the shoes is going to have to drop.
That’s all there is to it.
The longer I sit and think about it, the more I realize that I’ve got to drop something, or I’m going to go crazy. Either that, or I’m going to just spiral into depression or something else, so I’ve got [...]

… and then some times you feel like an idiot.

You know, I look at where I am in my life at times and wonder just where the hell I’ve gone wrong.
And then I write that on a screen, stare at it for five minutes, and want to go back to doing something infinitely more enjoyable, like plucking out my eyelashes with a 50-lb. test [...]