Many people think they are free to act as they wish. Unfortunately, this is not the case. There are so many unseen and unconsidered influences impinging upon our consciousness that our choice making capacities are virtually overwhelmed, sidetracking the vast majority of any uncompelled contemplation we can muster. This coloring of our awareness is waay [...]

What in the world were you thinking?! If you’ve ever heard this apprehensive question and at least somewhat understood the reason it was asked, you will easily be able to grasp today’s intriguing subject as we investigate the perplexing human condition of multiple personalities. But even if you have never considered how a person can [...]

Life is like a barrel of monkeys. You’ve got your barrel, your monkeys and everything else. Some of the keener folks among us have figured out that the trick to living a full life is to spend less time watching the monkeys or their barrel and more effort attempting to decipher everything else. And “everything [...]

Sometimes Evidence Needs To Be Bludgeoned In “You’re bloody right I am right and you watch your mouth!” I heard this pugnacious paternal pap waay too often during my adolescent years but no amount of snarly spiels could ever make me buy it. “Who cares what they say!” I would hap-hazardously insinuate to my siblings, [...]

Follow The Yellow Slick Road The guys could not wait to urinate on somebody. Even though I was only twelve years old, I immediately understood that this was a powerful force which would require intelligent and cautious containment. The wacky discovery revealed itself to me as I recruited my brother into my new gang: The [...]

The agonizing crunch catapulted Mrs. Vouch Chau’s smashed body 106 feet from the point of impact. Crosswalks Are Fracture Factories Every second of deadly trauma played out like a violent, slow motion movie for Mrs Chau’s horrified children and husband who were trailing mere inches behind her on the crosswalk. Only fate kept the entire [...]

Oh yeah, and everybody walk like me, okay? “Hah!” blurted the young police officer, “No one is honest!” This was the automatic and Freudian slippish reply to a question I had just posed to a Brandon City Police officer regarding his perception of the average person’s level of integrity. And while I found his audacious [...]

Dying Early is just Stupid. Don’t Do It! I really hope fifteen year old Andrew James died quickly. July 25, 2008 was a cool, overcast summer morning and Andrew was acting like thousands of young people his age. He hoped to earn a few extra dollars over the summer by working as a laborer for [...]

When I tap you Twice with my answer sword, that means NO! No! Don’t touch That! If you say these words sternly to most young children they will automatically be filled with apprehension and uncertainty. And just by staring at the kid once you’ve reprimanded them – especially if you have big, scary eyebrows like [...]

Aww Man! I stepped in Something! Life is confusing in a big way. And its not getting any simpler or easier to figure out. We stumble through each day not knowing that we’re stumbling or mumbling or maybe even grumbling. We’re on autopilot and its no wonder that more of us aren’t killed while we [...]