Where Did My Brain Go?

I just quit smoking for the zillionth and first time. I can’t stand it!
Make that zillionth and last – I can’t go through this again!
I know what it’s like. I know exactly what to expect. When I stop smoking cigarettes, I become cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy. Sleeping is difficult [...]

Jayne, aka Mom, would have been 54 today.
I met Jayne at Mickey’s Bar in Manhattan, on a Friday in November 1981. Mickey’s was a great place, in a great location, on the corner of Warren Street and Greenwich Avenue, back when TriBeCa felt like a small town.
We both liked going to Mickey’s, which catered [...]

Recently, I’ve read in the newspaper about the fabrication of some of the effects of this popular show, Man vs. Wild. Honestly, the sensationalism is a little overdone, considering fallacy is what makes television worth watching. If we were interested in reality we wouldn’t have to create scandal on every reality-based show just to make [...]

Let’s face it, news is depressing. I only buy our local newspaper on Mondays, so I can do the crossword puzzle when I have free time on my Woodsongs volunteer job.
I was so disgusted with the news, that I was planning to write a post that Where Did My Brain Go? would no longer feature [...]

I lost interest in school after eighth grade.
After ten hour days in private elementary school, my Dad went bankrupt, and I was forced to attend Midwood High School, a public school, with approximately 6000 students, in Brooklyn, New York.
Innocence Lost
I was a real goody two shoes back then, and I got a “job” working for [...]

It is a bright and breezy day in Lexington. The AC is off, and the screen door is open. After enjoying a nice lunch of tuna and plums, I settled on the couch to watch a rerun of my favorite television personality, Bear Grylls, trek through a Chilean rain forest. But I soon lost track [...]

After a few weeks of soul–searching, apathy, and indecision, I have finally figured out what do with this blog.
I am simply going to write.
I know how to write, and I finally know what to write to about. I am going to write about almost everything. Everything except politics.
Let’s face it, it’s all about pretty [...]

On Monday, July 2, 2007, Illinois began the first mandatory screening for traumatic brain injuries in America. The screenings are limited to members of the state’s National Guard who served in Iraq or Afghanistan because the state has no authority over Federal soldiers. The program also includes a 24–hour hotline for veterans with PTSD [...]