Tuesday, November 14, 2017. To Johan on the Occasion of Your 10th Birthday. You are turning ten years old. There are so many milestones of childhood but a whole decade old is a big deal, kiddo. 10 years ago, I had just become a lawyer. I was in my mid-20s. I had just bought our first house. I had no gray hair. I had family and friends that I loved, but my main priority was me. They are parent volunteers who just happen to tell me how great you are. Be the only time he sees you in Juvenile Court! Johan,.

Words, Writing and Literary Culture. Bluebird, Bluebird up for Best Novel. Is the first book in a planned series, this time featuring a black Texas Ranger named Darren Mathews. Race relations in Texas infuses. Which is unflinching in its portrayal of race-based hate crimes.

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In any encounter there is only one chance. Now is absolute, tomorrow is only a maybe. Your whole life is in this moment. Wednesday, July 14, 2010. I think MAN am I lucky to have this jackass in my life. I swallow my pride WAY more now than ever before. I think we can do it. I KNOW we can do it. We just need to make our plan.

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Where the eff are you, you no good lazy quitter? Monday, August 15, 2011. The Adventure of a Lifetime, Now With More Lethargy. A man who drives a truck and fixes things arrives this morning to tinker with something. A tank or a meter, or some other type of most boring word on the planet. Half an hour later he approaches me with some smug asshole blinky-light device. The Alex Trebek of poison gas detectors. Did I get Jeff? Do you feel sleepy alot? .

I gradually became aware that I was sitting on a small cart. It was travelling slowly along a narrow concrete track heading down a hill. It was an alpine slide. That summer I had worked at an amusement park in New Jersey called Action Park. The alpine slide there had been one of the main attractions.