How are you doing?
Seriously, I’d like to know! The world is not an easy place to live, and I’ve found throughout my short years here that a genuine interest in another’s state of being can make a huge difference in his...
View ArticleShower Time!
Awards shower that is! I’ve gotten a lot of love lately from Madeline Laughs of Spread Information: Stop the Madness and C.K. Hope of O.K., Who Ate the Daisies, who both nominated me for some awards! I...
View ArticleOn Learning the True Meaning of Community
I’m not talking about the television show (for once), I’m talking about the real thing: community. I wasn’t going to post today because I’m still addressing awards and trying to keep to my novel...
View ArticleSing Sweet Nightingale
Today I am going to sit down and tell you a little bit about what God means to me. I’d like to start by explaining that I use the word God because it is the name I am familiar with, but when I say God...
View ArticleI’m on Black Box Warnings Today
If you haven’t seen Black Box Warnings yet, you’re missing out on something really spectacular. It’s a place of healing through speaking and sharing with one another, so what are you waiting for? G0...
View ArticleHowdy Everybody
Since I’m being featured (that sounds so official, now I understand a little better what WTOE feels like for participants–WTOE is not dead btw, it’s only resting) . . . Anyway, since I’m being *cough,...
View ArticleThe Red Badge of Courage Award: Is the Coffee Ready Yet?
Sometimes we become the bad company we keep, other times we survive the bad company we keep. Every so often, we triumph over that company and become something truly amazing: a whole person who cares...
View ArticleI’ll be back next week!
Hi everyone, I just wanted to pop in and let you know I’ll be back next week! I spent the last week and a half helping a neighbor with moving/some other life stuff. I didn’t realize it would take so...
View ArticleThe Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation
This one of the most disturbing (though not very surprising) things that I have read recently: The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation, from Hip Hop is Read. Please give...
View ArticleI’m A-Goin’ Writin’
Halloo Folks! I’ve packed up all my gear and I’m a-goin’ writin’ for the next week. Found myself a nice n’ quiet little spot where the words practically jump onto the page and, if they don’t feel like...
View ArticleA Penny for your Thoughts
I could not touch my pen to paper for fear of what I might write. Fear of greatness, fear of failure, fear of bad grammar. Fear, such a stupid thing. If all who experienced fear were to succumb to its...
View ArticlePaper Bridges
My entire life I’ve been a pretty closed off person. While it’s true that I make friends easily, it is not true that I let people in easily–or at all, for that matter. Growing up, I often felt...
View ArticleWrite Like You Give a Shit
Reblogged from A Clown On Fire: I wrote Heroes a week prior to hitting the Publish button. My writing ritual consists of writing a quick draft, a post in bullet points. From those half-shaped...
View ArticleWTOE Guest Blogging!
Come one, come all to the premiere of The World Through Our Eyes Guest Blogging Extravaganza! Beginning Monday next week I’ll be featuring posts from past WTOE participants who have a little something...
View ArticleWTOE Extravaganza: Artists Exploring Art!
Click to view slideshow. Next week these guest bloggers will be sharing more of their thoughts and art with PonderingSpawned! Are you a WTOE artist who hasn’t jumped on the bandwagon yet? What the heck...
View ArticleCycles of Violence: Martin, Zimmerman, and a Little Town in Northern Ireland
Being from Florida, I can’t help but hear about the Trayvon Martin Case. It is everywhere, and it has spread to other parts of the United States as well. In the last couple of months Trayvon Martin’s...
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