Monthly Archives: January 2024

Dear Younger Me

Posted on January 31, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Debbie Prather of 742 I Love You. Debbie is a lifelong journaler, exercise physiologist, unrepentant health-nut, and person of faith. Her site is named for the time of evening her future husband Craig would … Continue reading →

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Why I Don’t Do Drugs

Posted on January 30, 2024 by mitchteemley

A short time after doing drugs for the first time, I scribbled the above anxiety-fueled meditation (and accompanying doodle) about looking into one’s own brain and never being able to look out again. My Real Memoir I’d turned nineteen, and … Continue reading →

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Do the Right Thing

Posted on January 29, 2024 by mitchteemley

Thought for the Week Something has changed. For most of its first two centuries, my country benefited from a unifying code of values. Most married couples stayed together because it was the right thing to do. Most adults strove to … Continue reading →

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The Road Ahead

Posted on January 28, 2024 by mitchteemley

May your closest companion now and always be the One who made the road. ∞

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No Clearer Sign

Posted on January 27, 2024 by mitchteemley

“Is there any clearer sign of a world gone mad than a suffering child?” ~The Wishing Map φ

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A World Gone Mad

Posted on January 27, 2024 by mitchteemley

Painting by Janice Nabors Raiteri The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. In an attempt to break free from the childlike … Continue reading →

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Weird Wonderful World

Posted on January 26, 2024 by mitchteemley

How boring the world would be if everything made perfect sense the moment we saw it. Sometimes you see something, and you think, “Ohhh, I get it.” But other times you see something and an hour later, a week later, … Continue reading →

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Are You Reaching for a Star?

Posted on January 25, 2024 by mitchteemley

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Here’s a little late January guilt (you’re welcome): If you’re like me, you started … Continue reading →

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A Note to My Virtuous Friends

Posted on January 24, 2024 by mitchteemley

“To do good is noble, but to teach others to do good is nobler…and much less trouble.” ~Mark Twain Many of us who are writers and teachers hope, I suspect, to affirm our own nobility by telling others how to … Continue reading →

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Flying Out of Control

Posted on January 23, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir My band, The Daily Planet, had just finished recording our first album and were anxious to get on with becoming famous! Our sonic heroes were soaring: The Beatles with “Get Back” and soon Abbey Road, Simon & … Continue reading →

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