An error we often make when writing is focusing too soon on mechanical details such as word, sentences and structure.

If we show up to the screen thinking about that stuff the practice won't go well unless you're working on a project that's already been refined. something at the revision...

I once had a buddy who got knocked out in one punch. He had been standing on the corner listening to something on his wireless headphones with his hands in his pockets when a youngster came around and threw a fist into his mouth.

This buddy was not a fragile character....

Our town had a term for that age when boys were still boys but suddenly had the fist and wrists of men. Didn't mean they had the same musculature, but they now suddenly wielded these thickened hands like hammers attached to their wiry arms. 

Until this time the fights didn't...

In a fight, people fixate on size. It's true that in a cage the bigger fighter has the advantage. That's why they have weight classes. But fights in the real world give quite more advantage to the lighter folk.

Even a wily teenager had the capacity to knock a well muscled,...

blood is not far off from  water . 92 percent of blood is made of it. 

In college if he scored a 92 then he got the highest grade point possible. 4 point oh.

So why was it that you could inject h20 into the veins of someone low on blood...

Today I will stop riding quarterback 's coattails and write something that's on my mind without being directly linked to reading one of his posts!

I've been thinking a lot about this notion of superiority. Nowadays... or maybe it's been always this way......

Last year I had some friends visit for a  workcation here in  Bloomington, IN . Whenever we hung out in a group I felt a bit detached, as though I had grown while everybody else had remained mostly the same as I remembered them.

It was only during my one on...

The desire to share is as natural a human desire as food and water. Not sharing won't literally kill you, but once you're at a certain level of Maslow's Hierarchy you'll basically do anything, claw your way to sharing; to be seen.

I think social media for a lot of us...

While climbing up the stairwell in my apartment building the other day, I realized for the first time two things simultaneously. That it was  November and that people were doing  NaNoWriMo . Then I remembered how far  drewb was getting in on his...

It was spring by the time he figured it out. But because the school year was coming to a close he considered it the summer. 

She had alluded to it. In a kind of, maybe this is where we are headed if things don't change, kind of way. But at...