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Broken Mirror Pt 7: Corey Pt 2
***Dear Friends and Readers, I wanna say “thank you” for sticking with me this long. It’s weird to let go of something I’ve held onto for so long and give it to total strangers who I can’t see. Terrifying actually. And I’m realizing that there’s been this tightness in my chest for the last 10…
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Broken Mirror Pt 6: Closed Doors
If I were to ever film some fictionalized version of my fictionalized story the opening shot to this particular chapter in my life would go as follows: In the frame of the camera we see two bare feet as Our Hero sits on a sidewalk with feet in the street, body above the knees out…
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Broken Mirror Pt 5: Tricky Dick
Alright Sheep… gather round. If we’re gonna talk about everything that went wrong in 1994… then we have to talk about everything. that. went. wrong. in. 1994. Never forget that the whole purpose of this stupid effort is to try to take down a cult and stop my country from descending into fascism. And some…
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Broken Mirror Pt 4: Posty McPostface Pt 2
Well this is one helluva mess. Dear Blogject Posty McPostface Pt 2, Godammit. What a stupid title. Some day far in the future– if I live long enough– I will tell the behind the scenes of the things happening in my private life during the writing of this. There are layers of complication in this…
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Broken Mirror Pt 3: Ketchup Soup
What is the psychological effect that would happen to a kid who was used to being the Golden Child™ treated with love and kindness and smiles and people are always happy to see you? And then ALL the support systems and relationships that child relied upon and could predict have now all simultaneously turned negative?…
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Dreams & Nightmares
This post has nothing to do with the blog… Yet, it has everything to do with the blog. A momentary pause on the Broken Mirror series. This is a brain purge. By a twist of fate that was not planned, I find myself tonight (August 28 2023) in a room at the Capital Hilton 2…
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Broken Mirror Pt 2: Holy Therapy, BadMan!
Been putting this one off for months. We are now entering the part of the story where my family takes center stage and this is the primary reason that I’ve been avoiding and dreading this section. Because I don’t want to talk about my family at all. And my family does not want me to…
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Broken Mirror Pt 1- Bad Kid School
A curious thing, the mirror. An arm’s length away We gaze upon the reflection And the moment our face is revealed to us The mind ceases to realize That a fragile pane of glass married to a thin film of glazed silver is all it is. That face! That face renders any physical properties the…
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One Year Later
I’m going to interrupt our regularly scheduled narrative for a moment of reflection on the One Year Blogiversary of our journey into the Story of Dave. It’s hard to put into words how much has changed in my world since I began this blogject. But one year ago, I sat down at the ole’ laptop…
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An Empty Chair
*siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh* So… there’s some challenges writing this next section. And as my acting coach Andrew Benne would say, “CALL BEHAVIOR!!” I use this tactic regularly in my life when there’s anxiety or nerves or messy feelings I don’t want to deal with… voice it. Get it out. Speak the truth you don’t want others to…