Dear Journal, Weekends at work are always interesting because so many people who don’t shop during the week show up in droves on Saturday or Sunday and make the time go faster with their questions. Besides, it gives me time and opportunity to people watch, the clear highlight to most of my days. Today, for … Continue reading Dear Journal: People Watching
Dear Journal, It’s always interesting when my mother comes to visit because at those times I’m both a son and a father, both a child and an adult, looking for acceptance yet strong enough to discipline just the same. I find it curious because I never felt like I wanted or needed acceptance as a … Continue reading Dear Journal: Between
Dear Journal, Why am I inevitably drawn to some music that has excellent beats but questionable lyrics at the same time? I find myself jamming out to Snoop Dogg and R. Kelly in my car while they rap and sing demeaning lyrics about women while using the F-word, the N-word, and several other phrases I … Continue reading Dear Journal: Explicit Content
Dear Journal, I’m thinking about a career again, and not teaching, or Target, or any of the various other jobs I’ve had in my life. As much as I enjoy teaching, I think summer school is going to be it for me for the foreseeable future, and maybe that time was past anyway, what with … Continue reading Dear Journal: The Next Step
Dear Journal, Today started off with a bang because my car wouldn’t start no matter how hard I begged for it to turn over, sitting like a lump of coal in the garage. It meant I wasn’t going to get to work on time, and maybe not at all today, but it also meant I … Continue reading Dear Journal: The Non-Starter
Dear Journal, Have you ever had one of those days when you feel like everything you do is just clouded over and worthless? And I don’t mean like being depressed, because I know how that feels too. I mean like just feeling down. I think if you have too many of those kinds of days … Continue reading Dear Journal: Feeling Gray
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