The Soapbox of the Soul

I didn't want it bad enough. I thought I did, but I didn't. I have to push myself to get where I need to be. I get to thinking about...

My mantra from college is revisited. Failure is not an option. Now I add: "How bad do you want it?". It's cold outside and I...

The next part of my saga has been hard to want to write. I think that's because it deals with a lot of failure and me not knowing where ...

Usually, any type of construction work is feast or famine. At the level I'm paid, it's squeak by or don't. Rain and holidays hav...

I haven't written in awhile. I have a job now. It will keep us afloat, but not moving forward. It gives me a chance to try to ride out t...

Hard job market. I have about enough money left to pay one more month of bills and only bills. With both my wife and myself unemployed, it h...

I guess now my life has taken a few turns, and now there is much to do. Due to cutbacks in state funding, pretty much all first year teacher...