sjaun’s road rage

Surreal is defined as “having an oddly dreamlike quality”.  I’m sure we’ve all had experiences like this at one time or another in our lives, and when we do, it’s so strange, almost like an out-of-body experience.
One instance in particular that I can recall happened about 3 years ago.  At the time I lived in [...]

Praying Mantis’
Come on, how cool are these things?!  They get their name from the common positioning of their front legs/claws, which resembles a prayerful position, although I like to think of it more as a pugilist stance.  And no wonder, as the females sometimes will eat off the head of their male mate during [...]

a hodgepodge of synapses firing in my head…

Now most of the time I’m willing to forgive and forget.  Life is too short to hang onto hurt over frivolous things.  But have you ever wanted revenge so bad you were willing to break the law to get it? Or maybe thought about what it would be like to be a superhero, taking out [...]

I’ve had some pretty bad days in my time.  Days where I wished that I had never gotten out of bed.  Days that when I looked back at them I have to ask myself, “How did that happen?” or “Why did I do that?”
Like the time when I went ice skating and fell through the [...]

Stem cell research, as you know, has long been a source of contention.  On the one hand you have the scientific community and people who believe in what it could do for humanity in helping ‘fix’ brain or spinal injuries, and on the other hand you have the people who are upset about the use [...]

Bailout Passes House Vote
We knew it was going to pass sooner or later, as cries about the complete and utter collapse of our economy and life as we now know it were being screamed from every corner of the White House and the media.  But how much is it really going to help?  Is this [...]

Have you ever received a letter from someone who uses no punctuation or no transitional verbiage in their written communication so that you have to really work at deciphering the meaning of said letter and thereby have to question the validity of their argument or whether they have ever received a formal education or maybe [...]