Last Entry

This is my last entry. I have moved all my blogging activity over to my own site: Tears In Rain.

I won't take this site down, but I won't be back.

There is a scar on my finger.

There is a scar on my finger.

Not a healed scar, from a cut. It doesn't hurt, not really. It's just a place where the skin is a little smoother, the flesh underneath indented, a bit.

My thumb still wanders over to the underside of that finger. It's been a year, …

Advice I am taking

By T. D. Jakes

There are people who can walk away from you.

And hear me when I tell you this! When people can
walk away from you: let them walk.
I don't want you to try to talk another person into
staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring
about you, …

A little email wisdom

1. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you..

2. No man or woman is worth your tears, & the one who is, won't make you cry.

3. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you …

A conversation with my parents

It's funny how you start really figuring out how all the peices fit together. In the process of trying to save my marriage, I've learned a great deal about why I've been depressed for so long, and how that depression contributed to the breakdown of my marriage, my …

Innefective Fund-Raising Campaigns

Dogfight for a Cure
Jersey City Bachelor Auction To Raise Chlamydia Awareness
Tats for Tots
The March of Counterfeit Subway Tokens
We Don't Have A Problem And We Sure As Hell Don't Need Your Damn Money Gala Ball & Silent Auction
PeTA and Hamas Pita-and-Hummus …

12-steps to a healthy emotional and relational life.

This has been a difficult summer. Communication is a very hard thing to get right, especially when you've spent most of your life avoiding it. I've been convicted recently that this has finally got to stop. Mike Breaux, the teaching pastor at my church is in a series …

Music Review coming soon

I will soon be a real music reviewer! Marc Gunn, of the Brobdignagian Bards is sending me a review copy of "Irish Drinking Songs: The Cat Lover's Companion" for review. I have been a fan of his music for quite awhile now. It's going to be fun to check this one out, and …

Much more detail about who I am.

I am a husband and father of 3. A child of the 70's, I enjoy music, fiction, science, art, philosophy and religion. I have been a moderately good software engineer, a systems administrator, a singer and a webmaster. I would like to someday be an author, a podcaster, a …

When our storytellers die

This is an expansion of some thoughts I had in a thread on my friend's Live Journal. The discussion was particular about the passing of several actors from Babylon 5 over the last few years, most recently, Andreas Katsulas, who played G'Kar. The others who have passed …

This guy just won't go away

Who does Fred Phelps worship? Not the God that I do. This guy made a name for himself as the fire and brimstone preacher who picketed the funeral of Mathew Shepard. Shepard was a gay college student who was beaten to death for being gay. Phelps' latest is to picket the …

Album Review - Matthew Ebel - Beer and Coffee

From the first track to the last, Matthew Ebel's latest CD is a nearly perfect combination of solid rock music, very catchy pop hooks, and some really deeply moving lyrics. He has a knack for putting into words some of the things I've been struggling with lately. He …

From the Archives....

Okay, here's the deal: Not everyone who calls themselves a Christian is truly a Christ-Follower. Big surprise, you say. Well according to some people, all christians are ignorant, abusive, bigotted hayseeds. Or, they so want to be accepted by everyone that you can't …