Author Archives: Jesse Carr
What is your story?
Words describe who we are. They are our legacy. When everything else fades away, they remain. Like thread in fabric they are interwoven and connected, very similar, yet completely different. Words are used to describe actions. They are tools that we use to bring memories to life. For most people, words are an expression. Each […]
Blue Bell is More Than Just Ice Cream
She died four months before my 18th birthday. In a matter of three weeks she went from sick with a cold, to unresponsive in a nursing home, yet she has continued to live on in my life in the form of Blue Bell coffee ice cream, Diet Coke, and late night crime drama’s. For some […]
The Loneliness in Family
One would think that growing up in a house with seven other people would be everything but lonely, however, in a culture that puts family last, it was quite the opposite. My mom managed to somehow home school all of us. I’m not really sure how, but she managed to pull it off with pretty decent […]
Surely it hadn’t always been like this?
It was so disgusting. The dark sticky puss oozed onto my fingers sticking to them like tar. It was warm to the touch, but it felt dead, as if it had just recently stopped beating. As I looked down at its lifeless form in my hands I was reminded of a different time. A time when […]
Living With The Memories
You never really get it as a kid. Occasionally someone other then your parents will impart you with wisdom and it will click, but most times you have to learn the hard way. I never believed it. Well, I believed it. But I was so arrogant I thought I could play with fire and not […]
A Beautiful Renegade
I was tired. Tired of the same stupid mistake, tired of pretending to be shallow in order to avoid hard conversations, and tired of playing dodge-ball with everything I didn’t understand. The simple solution at first was to bury them somewhere deep, somewhere no one would ever find them. You know, those things you swear […]
There Is Always Beauty
Some things happen inexplicably. Sometimes they are things we can’t control, other times they are the consequences of our actions. Each one is beautiful and terrible in its own regards, but no matter how beautiful or tragic they are, these things happen for a reason – each with a very specific purpose. Sir Isaac Newton […]
We’re All Just Zombies – We Need A Little Warmth
It’s cheesy, I can’t deny that, but truthfully it’s a movie that everyone needs to watch. This week there has been a lot of talk about love. With the SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage the cry of, “love always wins” broke out in support of gay rights nationwide. Of course, it was met with criticism […]
The American Warrior
Some have given all and all have given some. It is a brotherhood – a bond forged in fire, tested in blood, and defined not by ones love for self, but ones love for others. Someone once said, “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” While the […]
Always There
It was a deep pain. The kind that cuts straight to your heart. It was just as much painful as it was gut wrenching. How many times would it take? How many lessons would I need to learn? It seemed like the same thing, over and over again, yet no matter what I did it […]
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