Writing from the Heart with Brian
Think, Laugh, & Cry Each Day
In a matter of a couple of blocks, we ran into a life-sized Woody and Buzz from "Toy Story," twin zombies with blood dripping down their clothes, maniacal-looking clowns similar to the one featured in the movie "It," and a woman straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale, the TV show envisioning a totalitarian future state.... Continue Reading →
I turned on the television last week to see a story on a husband and wife clearing away mud and debris caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. They told the reporter they were still without power and lacked the basic essentials. The husband tried to keep a brave face and said much of the... Continue Reading →
I shake my head some days. I grew up in a rural farming community where small, simple church steeples outnumbered taverns and watering holes and you had to drive 30 minutes to get to the nearest grocery store. Each small village had a post office and maybe a gas station. When I was young, I... Continue Reading →
When I was a kid, I would take out a piece of composition paper from one of my school notebooks and fold it into an airplane. I would be especially careful to keep the folds crisp, like I had steamed them with a hot iron. I would repeat this process, making a hangar-full of planes,... Continue Reading →
We jostled each other in line to go back into school from our morning recess. The bell always seemed to ring too soon. I’m not sure who started it, but everyone started chiming in with an opinion on their favorite superhero. One kid cried out Superman. Another yelled Batman. When together, comic book publisher DC... Continue Reading →
A friend of mine recently gave me a unique, one-of-a-kind gift. You can’t find one of these in an Apple store or on Amazon. You can’t even travel across the globe to a quaint little shop in some faraway country to pick up a gift like this. My friend gave me a mini time machine... Continue Reading →
I keep trying to write something about the current state of politics. I’ll start commenting on one side of the aisle and then the other does something that I find completely ridiculous. In the end, I find myself right back where I started. So, instead of a political blog, I write today about a mentor who... Continue Reading →
I’m not sure what put me over the edge. My first thought was two sad stories I saw on my local news on a terminally ill teenager and a woman fighting breast cancer. It could have been the realization that my children are getting older. They’re no longer little kids, running around the house. In a few... Continue Reading →
When you hear former NFL Quarterback Jake Plummer describe Pat Tillman, who left a lucrative NFL career to become a U.S. Army Ranger and who died in a friendly fire incident in 2006, you find yourself wishing that you would have had the chance to get to know him too. “I met Pat my sophomore year... Continue Reading →
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