Fear

The Week that Stole a Year

May 17, 2012 Personal

It’s amazing how quickly my life shifted from the break-neck pace of “figure out what the hell is wrong with me” to the post diagnosis frantic rush of “kill it with fire.” On the heels of a both a bone marrow and lymph node biopsy I was now going to have a port implanted into [...]

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The Last Words I Ever Thought I Would Hear

March 21, 2012 Personal

2012 began for me in the same way I believe it began for most people; with the hope that it would be better than the year before and the nagging suspicion that it probably wouldn’t.  My own suspicion was confirmed far earlier than I would have liked it.  In the height of my New Year’s [...]

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The Company We Keep

October 2, 2009 Personal

In Spanish there’s a saying my Dad used to often tell me, "Dime con quien andas y te dire quien eres" which translates to "Tell me who you hang out with and I’ll tell you who you are".  The people we surround ourselves with have more of an impact on our lives than we realize.  [...]

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Why do you do it?

August 8, 2009 Personal

Recently a good friend of mine decided to take a more creative direction with his life.  Fed up with the cubicle routine and feeling genuinely unfulfilled, he started writing on the side with the end goal being an eventual transition into full time writing.  We talked about the change in direction over several nights, batting [...]

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Realities of the writing life

July 19, 2009 Writing

Expectations are a tricky thing.   It’s amazing to see in the professional world that when you tell a client something will go wrong beforehand they’re usually ok about it, but when you don’t and it does, they flip the fuck out.  Missed expectations can pack an emotional wallop greater than anything directly hurtful so it’s [...]

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Consistency in the face of Quiet

June 30, 2009 Personal

The voices in my head have gone quiet and that actually isn’t a good thing.  If you were suffering from psychosis, I supposed the voices going away would be helpful, but when you’re a writer and the rooms in your mind go silent you get worried.  At first you hope it’s the naughty quiet when [...]

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Why vampire boyfriends and not vampire girlfriends?

June 14, 2009 Horror

Vampires always come and go in vogue, but recently they have become an especially hot property.  From movies to television to books, bloodsuckers are saturating our entertainment in record numbers.  What’s makes this wave of Nosferatu different from previous incarnations is the role that they are playing.  Dracula isn’t the foul creature from the grave, [...]

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