Dissonance Personified

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February 2025

The Winds of Change
In 2015, I felt the winds of change blow into my life in a big way. I had been traveling the Southeast for the last four or five years doing a weird mix…
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Time Machine
I am wildly fascinated with the concept of time travel. Avoiding the paradoxes my journey through time and space may cause, I often wonder what it would…
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The Duality
Dissonance is a word I picked up in one of the few counseling sessions I did at a local Vet Center before my counselor quit. It is defined as a tension…
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Less Talk More Action
Years ago, I stumbled into a grimy boxing gym in the “bad” part of town and began to fight against the noise in my head. I trained every day after work…
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January 2025

Optics
It’s always fascinated me how two people can experience the same scenario and have wildly different opinions on what occurred. Our perspectives are…
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Exponential Apathy
In the last few weeks, we have buried a president, inaugurated another, and said farewell to a third. You can say it’s been an eventful season for our…
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Twenty Years Later
It’s hard to believe that the twentieth anniversary of my deployment to Iraq is in a few short months.
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Ecosystem
I tattooed the words “Frog” and “Toad” on my fingers two days ago. “Why?” you might ask. My response will always be, “Why not…I’m an idiot.” I imagine…
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Fight or Flight
Two of my dogs got into a scuffle the other night at feeding time.
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December 2024

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