What is that saying about 7 years of bad luck? That if you break a mirror, you will have bad luck, blah, blah, blah. Well I must have really smashed the shit out of a mirror seven years ago because I can trace back all of my bad luck back to 2010. I mean this is good news though right? Its 2017 so that means that the cycle ends this year. Although really when I think about it, my bad luck started in 2008-2009 so I should be well behind the bad luck streak at this point. 2008 is when my troubles at my former job started. In that year, I was denied a well deserved raise, a student of mine died, the principal at my school was being investigated for fraud, my office was vandalized on a regular basis, I was almost attacked by a student. I could keep going but I'll spare you the rest of the gory details - I in effect quit that year but they begged me back for one more year giving me the raise I had earned but at a price: they decided to also shut down my program so after 2009, I would b...
The fabulously eccentric non conformist, poet Allen Ginsberg said, "“To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.” This blog is not to gain followers or to show off my writing skills, but instead to express my thoughts and feelings about the world through words. I believe words have the power to change and move people and through writing them, change oneself. This is what I am doing in this blog...changing myself one word at a time.