“So it goes”

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
That’s because this entry is short and sweet.  This summer has turned out to be incredibly busy, and it’s a shame because I’d love to write more.  I’d also like to work out more creative things than just journal entries.  Perhaps bits of stories, scripts, columns, whatever could go here–but I just [...]

“It wasn’t a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.”

This is from Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried,” which is another one of my favorite books (definitely in the top 5, but I’m not sure I can quite rank them).
Now I’m chilling at Eric’s house; we just finished watching “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.”  The movies are getting better as the books [...]

“Changed, I headed back through the mud. I was drenched; anybody could see it was time to come in out of the rain.”

The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age, enfeebled, dry. I was thankful, very thankful that I had seen it. So the more things remain the same, the more they change afterall…Changed, I headed back through the mud. I was drenched; anybody could see it was [...]