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These days, I gotta admit, I kinda feel helpless. I am just along for the ride. The wide-open surrounded by crazy-beautiful scenery with bald eagles soaring gracefully through an azure…

It was my very first day working as a lift operator at Winter Park Ski Resort in Colorado. I had made it through the morning and was actually making my…

The first surgery on my abdominal area happened on the first day of graduate school at Colorado State University. After missing two weeks of graduate level classes, I spent one…

The surgeon, an Army doctor with short gray hair and a rather brusque, “just the facts” manner of speaking, which (originally) did not exactly create an aura of lovability about…

This story is not so much for you as it is for me. Sorry. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. Sometimes I can be pretty selfish like that.…

There are parts of this story I have never shared with anyone. There are parts of this story that will remain unshared. First, they wouldn’t really mean anything to you.…

Maybe this one is not exactly about resilience, but maybe it is. I don’t really care. It is needed at this time. Last week I was talking with one of…

Technically, I think I can honestly say that I have broken multiple noses. I don’t know, actually. If you get a nose job, and the new nose is noticeably different…

When I was thinking of trying to put these stories into some sort of book, these are the words I created for an intro. Two different thoughts but I think…

In writing these stories, it has become abundantly apparent that I have made some really bad decisions in my life. This story might exemplify one of the worst decisions I…