In 199X, Dad finally got tired of dealing with us and shipped us off to what was essentially a Reform School, and without a doubt the worst place I’ve ever spent any significant amount of time: [REDACTED]. Young delinquents who had been kicked out of all the Public Schools in their area, children of Divorce, …

I first began smoking Marijuana in 200X. It was at the behest of a friend named Christian, who introduced me to the drug. Well, not introduced exactly. I had been exposed to Marijuana before, I had just never partaken of it. I felt it was somehow beneath me, until Christian finally convinced me to partake …

Had several interesting dreams last night. The first one seems portentous, and I’m not quite sure what to make of it. In the dream, Christ came back to earth to explain his Doctrine, or Philosophy, or Whatever You Want To Call It. However, he looked nothing like the Christ we see in all the Medieval …

When I was fresh out of High School, I migrated from my dish-washing job at The Overlook Restaurant to a “Night Operator” position at a Bank. At the time, they still sent everyone’s canceled checks out via mail. In order to organize these checks for mailing, they had a giant check-sorting machine run by a …

It addition to Prayer and Bible-Reading, lately I’ve taken to meditating once a day in order to soothe my troubled mind. The problem is, I’m really bad at it. No matter what I try, I can’t seem to discipline my mind. I’ve had the most luck by focusing closely on my breathing, but I can …

Lately, I’ve been returning to my Faith of old. I admit, it’s because I’m a “Foul-Weather Christian.” A lot of people are “Fair-Weather Christians,” where they’re happy and successful, so they’re close to God, and when things go wrong, they turn against Him, blaming Him for their problems. I’m the opposite. Whenever I hit a …