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“…with the information we have at the time.”
I was having a discussion with my mom yesterday. She has always been good at handling difficult situations. She has always told me, "I will stand beside you in any situation but you have to give me the facts." During our conversation she made a statement that I have...
Never Gets Old
I haven't been to CrossFit in months- Covid, excuses, laziness and a knee-surgery are all equally to blame. I went back to Olive Branch CrossFit yesterday. I wanted to rehab my knee a little bit and just move around. The workout was a descending ladder of dumbbell...
Trash Tree
Up until I was about 20 years old I thought that Mimosa trees were pretty. I liked their pinkish-orange, soft-looking blooms and I would admire them when I was driving south to school at Mississippi State University. A remember telling a friend of mine who had a...
Grief
Grief. Google tells me that it means "deep sorrow, especially that caused by someone's death." It can also mean "trouble or annoyance." 2019 seems to have served up a heaping helping of grief. It has also, at least for me, served up a little bit of trauma and some...
Empathic Strength – 08072019
I'm on twitter a lot (@vonralls HMU!). On twitter if you aren't super liberal you're an intolerant racist and if you aren't super conservative you're a snowflake that wants to ban guns and make everyone gay. There is no middle ground on twitter. Everything and...
Empathic Strength – 07302019
Believe it or not I do not have all the answers. It's possible I have no answers. Well, maybe I have answers, but they are probably wrong half the time. Who even knows? Nobody. Nobody really knows. We're all just trying to (hopefully) make ourselves better. If you had...




