Pen And Paper Stories

  • Push Ups for your Brain – My thoughts for the night

    I am not getting any younger, but that doesn’t mean my mind has to get old. I want my mind to stay young, and to do so I have to exercise my brain. I don’t want to encourage dementia and Alzheimer diseases to be a part of my life in… Listen ⇢

  • BLUE COLLAR CURSE

    So came Monday- The start of the work week. The day in which I accept my weekly defeat. Tuesday was next- And how did I feel? The loss of the confidence the suit did steal. Wednesday then tried.. To lessen the week’s dump… With a cheery message I am over… Listen ⇢

  • I am not crazy – Because I have wondered if I am.

    Crazy people do not know they are crazy. Isn’t that what we are lead to believe? The world is crazy to a crazy person. The crazy people never believe they are never crazy. So I guess that means I am sane, because I have asked myself if I am crazy… Listen ⇢

  • SO…

    So bold are you Who offer replies To written words you’ve read. So tough the language You may use With only hatred spread. So demanding are you In seeking respect For all that you may feel. So absent are you Of the intent Of the messages that you steal. So… Listen ⇢

  • NOT BEING BIPOLAR DOES NOT MAKE ME AN IDIOT!

    Not being bipolar does not make me an idiot! You being bipolar doesn’t make you smart. There! I said it! I have lived with someone battling bipolar disorder for many years. Each year I watch his illness become more consuming, and each year I blame him for it. Why? Because… Listen ⇢

  • Depression

    So…. I walked into it- A hell absent of a destination; A future could not be seen. The doors were guarded with deception As paths of shimmering promise. So I walked through them… Wouldn’t you? Demented with thoughts That appearances were true. Yet here I stand. Debilitated. Who knew? IT… Listen ⇢

  • Saved by the shave

    Dating has never been a hobby of mine, but finding forever did not come quickly for me. I was 35 when I met him. I never thought when I started dating Derrick that laziness would save our relationship, but two years later I have learned that my shaving habits sealed… Listen ⇢

  • Paris attack reactions

    Hope is the purest form of expectation because it is a feeling of trust and desire. What does the world desire today? I have no idea. We live in a world of so much hatred that it feels like hope is something of past because it is something so rarely… Listen ⇢

  • Prayers for Paris

    I am frustrated by the reports of another terrorist attack on innocent people. I will never understand the thoughts and actions of people who think they have a right to hurt and kill people who believe and think different than they do. I wish I could send weapons to the… Listen ⇢

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