I saw J3SSIKA's entry as the reader's choice on the front page, and I felt compelled to respond after reading it. I am trying to think about where to begin. There are many thoughts that are crashing into each other in my mind currently. Let me see if I can make a valid, and intelligible response. To put it plainly, chivalry is dead. I was raised in a household with an preoccupied...

----- Man Who Stabbed Family Says He Was Possessed By The Devil (ABC15.com; June 2) GLENDALE, Arizona: The man who confessed to killing his daughter and wife, and stabbing his young son multiple times, said the “devil and God” made him do it, according to court documents. Glendale Police Sgt. Jim Cunningham said Michael Miller, 29, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and...

   During these 29 minutes since the anniversary of my birth, I have thought of your hair so often I can smell it as you step out of the shower, even here, this lifetime away, separated from this moment as it will occur for years, when we are old and misshapen and tired. Because sometimes it feels so eternal. Something about the perfect symmetry of your face, the quiet,...

Looking out my window, I see lots going on below at different times.  Today it was  City's workers blasting all the white lines in the T intersection.  Why are they doing that?   Across the avenue, I can see a fountain in a long square pool.  Next to it is a swimming pool; I know it must be a hot day for the kids to be swimming.   The...

The minutes drip by, words from wax candled lips Heat soaking in with unexpected movement Simple phrased illusions paint the foreground And you, lost among the folds of colored paper Drowned voices shout with still hoarse words I am here, I am Here, I AM HERE! Tiny misfortunes tangled in seemingly unstable threads Be it not your words, but rather your thoughts Drink them in, like wine...

I walked along the cobblestone streets and rode the sleek elevators. I felt the sunshine on my back and the air conditioner on my face. I jogged to the park and drove to the movies. I constantly balanced on a fine line between new and old, here and there, me and them. I wandered around in search of something. I was looking for answers but I wasn’t even sure what the questions were. I was...

  Back to ACORN General Hospital By Carol Peracchio   Guess who's going to be much better off thanks President Obama's health care scheme? I read a fascinating survey recently. According to Rasmussen, Forty-two percent (42%) of Americans say every one in the United States should have free health care. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that...

My idea today relates to why people try so hard to fit into society. Now I don't know if I write this because in a sense I am a strange loner. Or if I really feel that it's truly lame to sacrifice your identity in order to fit into a cult of blondes who will never truly accept you. (Not meant in a mean or cruel manner.) Eventually they're going to find out who you are. And...

  ....Life is just a mulitple set of complications... Everyday is a journey towards the future... We got to meet other people, We got to do new things as another day comes by..Sometimes it would all be laughter, and sometimes all you see is dark around you.. I am a middle class citizen here in the Philippines,I am living a simple life of which  every ordinary man does here. I...