Reminded How to Feel
Sometimes someone comes into our lives to let us know what we’ve been missing. Throughout my adventure in the written word, reflection has been my most common genre in my portfolio. One could suspect that I would know myself well by reading any post on here or any poem in my poetry book, and normally I would agree with anyone who believed that sentiment, but … Continue reading Reminded How to Feel
Smitten
Smitten has become one of my newest favorite words due to how relevant it has become to me. Words escape me in regards to my feelings for the first time ever. I have never had a problem expressing my emotions either verbally or through the written word, but in this recent period of me being completely and utterly smitten, I have not been successful in … Continue reading Smitten
My Apologies, Ma’am
My mom always told me to be kind to everyone, but especially to girls. I was to be equally kind to every single girl I came across because in my mom’s eyes I was never old enough to date. This was never an issue. I developed crushes, as any fourth or fifth grader does, but kept the opposite sex at bay with the barrier of … Continue reading My Apologies, Ma’am
A Man of All Time
Stories are the key to the gateway to the past, present, and future. In my career in academia and outside of it, I’ve sat at the Knights’ round table, slept on a gondola in Venice, painted a white fence in Missouri, fought for survival during the Depression, threw parties in a mansion in hopes of catching the eye of the one I love, fought otherworldly … Continue reading A Man of All Time
Recounts, Reflections, and Other Writings 