Category: Trying Again Again
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Best Laid Plans
Well I started this fall with lofty ambitions of writing weekly themed posts. Those went to hell when we had a death in the family and a new job came into play. The death threw off my rhythm, stealing a couple of weeks of time as we dealt with the funeral and processed and the…
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Orphaned
On September 11, 2025, just before dinner time, I became an orphan at 45 years old. My mother passed away in 2006 after fighting through kidney failure and multiple heart attacks for years and a week ago, as I’m writing this, my father passed away after a short battle with multi-systems cancer. And try as…
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The Outdoors
A couple of weeks ago, I helped feed the local BSM group. Due to construction at the university, we were moved to a new location this year which placed us on a patio area adjacent to one of the courtyards on campus. As we served the students, memories of my time at college flooded my…
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Trying Again…Again – Death
I have watched people die. As an EMT, I’ve been in the presence of a body separated from its soul as we fought to reunite the two. As a child and grandchild, I’ve sat beside a loved one as they’ve taken their final breath. Each event is as traumatic and life altering as the next.…
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Hindsight
Haunted By My Past I wasn’t even 18 when I graduated high school, my birthday falling in the summer after that day. On that day, though, I was already making decisions that would dictate the direction of my life. Circumstances at home had forced my hand, guilting me into choosing the path that was expected…
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Trying Again…Again
As Sunday comes to a close and the week resets into Monday, I find myself looking at the beginning of yet another temporal causality loop where the motions of a week start over and my only hope for survival is to pick the better path this tine around. Unfortunately, Data isn’t here to stack the…
J.Rhett Lively 