It wouldn’t be unfair to say that Keanu Reeves is one of Hollywood’s greatest outcasts. Despite being one of the best known actors today, he is renown for a shy, solitary reputation and down to earth lifestyle, including a small apartment instead of a mansion, lack of fancy clothing, and a lack of any kind [...]
Does getting dressed every morning in clothes that you buy for work, to drive through traffic in a car that you’re still paying off, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave empty all day so you can [...]
It was around the time I learned the word “irony” that getting spanked for defending myself by hitting other children did not seem right. In fact, many things didn’t. Playing games with other children like “Pin the tail on the donkey” was the perfect example. Not only was it nerve wracking being blind folded, spun [...]
Frozen, that’s what he was. ”Deer in the headlights” would perfectly encapsulate the moment. He was like the quiet deer stuck in the middle of the road, and she was like the headlights, her mouth beaming insult after insult. I was sitting in a park watching this young man take responsibility for unwittingly getting in [...]
Marriage. It’s a topic discussed frequently at my age. I’m turning 25 this week and it becomes a looming ‘passing of age’ requisite into adulthood. When I read discussions between people who are pro Choice Marriage Vs. Arranged Marriage I think: What’s the difference? It’s like arguing whether suicide is better than murder. In [...]
There are various odors of disquieting provenance in this room. I suspect they might come from under the ping pong table in the kitchen, just past the precarious skyline of empty Sprite bottles. Our quaint, slightly cramped five bedroom home has taken on some sort of hybridized character between a heroin den and U-boat. [...]
“The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps one of the most renown Gothic, melancholic and alcoholic American writers of all time. Like many great writers, he was also fairy introverted. Poe was [...]
He was a man with a sickly disposition, barely five-foot tall and just over 100 pounds; yet he managed to single-handedly build a megalithic monument, lifting and maneuvering blocks of up to 30 tons in weight. Many children grow up with heroes like Rambo or Spiderman, but mine were lone eccentric geniuses like Nikola Tesla [...]
“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson There I stood, staring at my open umbrella on the kitchen floor wondering who in my family was going to die as a result. I was 10 years old and was standing there, listening to my [...]
“I’m good at Multi-tasking“, has become a modern euphemism for “Delusions have made my carelessness measurable.“ Last year I made the hard decision of purchasing my first smart phone. The Pros ended up out-weighting the Cons, like having something better to read while seated on the toilet other than shampoo bottle instructions. But deep down, [...]
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” [...]
“Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.” ~ Winston Churchill Some people live life in the fast lane. I spent most of mine on the side of the road, hood ajar, staring at a smoking engine…scratching my head. I admired entrepreneurs and innovators like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney. I admired courageous speakers against injustice [...]
Sol & Luna Old souls. Lovers of gnomes, books, rainy days and all things bizarre. Celebrators of solitude. Creators of LonerWolf: a sanctuary for the disconnected, displaced and misunderstood.
