The Writing Archive
Every story has its place. Browse the reflections, bookish detours, faith, questions, and little moments that have found their way onto AYKM over the years.
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VisionQuest: The Questions That Stay With Us
A spoiler-free reflection on Marvel’s VisionQuest—and the questions it raises about memory, pain, compassion, and the choices that make us who we are.
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Paradigm Shift
When it comes to religion I’ve been floundering lately, if I’m honest I’ve been burned up, like a crisp. Well to be really honest for the last few years and most of of my life…
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Libraries
Anyone who knows me, knows I love books. My biggest dream is to have my own bookshop, that is a tale for another day. My point is I discovered a whole new universe the day…
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Smiling
Smiling is something that comes naturally to some and, then it’s like a forced emotion with others. I fall into the latter, well usually. I find that I gravitate to certain people who just bathe…
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CP- Question #1
If you could fly in a hot-air balloon over any city in the world, what city would you choose? Tokyo would be my pick, as it is just about the biggest, and one of the…
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Yearning
I want to know: yearn to know Is what I know; knowing or known? Yearning is sweet unbeleiveable agony! The agony speaks through the pain, the pain is then strength The strength to understand that…
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Resolutions
I have made a lot of resolutions over the years, one stuck quitting smoking, and then there are those that never do. I need to re-evaluate, change, etc and so on to the point it…
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Me the villain
..just imagine it, well I can. I am not kidding you! I have screwed up more than I can forgive myself for, even if everyone I have wronged has forgiven me. I am someone’s villain,…
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Let’s do this…
I found myself on this day reading 150 pounds by Kate Rockland I checked it out from the local library, impulse at best. I am only at page 26 and I can tell it’s going…
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What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt. Do your best till you know better, then do better Or Still I rise…
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