Another legacy of the Homeschool Time was The Blue Van. One day, some men showed up and got in our green Buick and started it up. Dad rushed out the door and asked them what they were doing and they said, “Sorry, sir, you’re behind on your payments for this car and it’s being repossessed.” …
One of my earliest obsessions was Pac-Man. The game came out when I was three years old and I remember being taken with it as early as five. I mean, I was a Pac-Maniac. I played the games every chance I got, watched the cartoon, ate the cereal, played the board game, talked about it …
I’ll take a break from describing the conditions of my time in [REDACTED], Tennessee to talk about the reason why I always get a little nervous about being “too” happy. Right before I got arrested in the summer of 200X, I was on top of the world. I loved life, I loved what I was …
Soon after Mom died, me, Dad and Brother moved from our house in [REDACTED], Tennessee to a much larger house in [REDACTED], Tennessee. It was pretty sizable, with three bedrooms, an upstairs floor that was separated into two big rooms, and a cavernous cellar with a menacing looking fuel-oil furnace that looked like some kind …
As long as I’ve known my Uncle on my Father’s side, which is to say, as long as I’ve been alive, he has been a preacher. My Family attended his Church for the majority of my childhood. I wrote about this subject to some degree in my entry on religion, but I thought I might …
My childhood is thick with religion, and a quite… unusual… variety of it, too. From what I have been able to piece together by overhearing the previous generation of my Family discuss it, as well as suppositions on my part, it began in the 70’s. My Dad was drafted to go to Vietnam, and he …