Category: Catastrophic Experience

• As the World Turns…

  As the World Turns Pauses It’s obvious that as the crisis of COVID19 looms over the globe, we the people have put our normal lives on hold. Life as we know it has paused.  The hardship of this unprecedented time is unfathomable; for everyone. Yet, I have observed a few personal benefits since Shelter-In Place (SIP) orders were […]

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  April 10, 2020

  as the world turns, Blogging, Catastrophic Experience, Personal, search for tomorrow, Self Awareness, the days of our lives, Uncategorized, What is normal?

  Crazy Days, Living History, On the Plus Side of Things

• Ode to September

  September We wonder, September, who, what star will sing new, And who, what star will wax far away. Your third sapphire day’s star arose shimmering bright only to apex and implode into the heavens and dissipated. The black it left is as bright as the light. This, too, is to your ode. Star light, star […]

  spoon13

  September 4, 2018

  Blogging, Catastrophic Experience, Death, On the Loss of a Grandchild, Personal, Teen Suicide, True Stories, Uncategorized

  Death, Flashbacks, Personal, Teen Suicide, The Struggle is Real, True Stories, Writing

• Echoes, Part 1

    I’m posting, in two parts, a short story written as a classroom assignment. This is based on true events that occurred in the ancestral line of my paternal grandmother, my great-great grandparents, John and Eliza Yoakam, who settled in Coos Bay, Oregon in the mid 1850s. Echoes, Part One   “Turn left here,” Jack […]

  spoon13

  August 18, 2018

  blogging fundamentals, Catastrophic Experience, Death, firstfridays, Little Towns, Personal, True Stories, Uncategorized

  Autobiographical, Intropections, Personal, The Struggle is Real, True Stories, Writing

• The Woman in the Wallpaper, Part Two

    Today’s post is a continuation of an essay written as a university assignment. Every detail is true, except for the name change of my then fiancé, known here as Frank.   The Woman in the Wallpaper––Part Two Months later, while roaming the aisles of Target Stores, I note a young boy of about 14 […]

  spoon13

  July 21, 2018

  Burn Surviors, Catastrophic Experience, firstfridays, Lifelines, Personal, Self Awareness, Two-faced, Uncategorized, What is normal?

  bloggingfundamentals, cracked pots, Crash and Burn, Flashbacks, Intropections, Personal, Rants, Self-imposed prisons, Shame, Surviving Burns, The abysss, The Struggle is Real

• The Woman in the Wallpaper–Part One

  I am posting this autobiographical essay in parts because the original essay was written as such. I wrote this in response to a course requirement in the Advanced Composition course at Simpson University. Every detail, even the seemingly miniscule, is true to the best of my recollection. The exception is the name change of my […]

  spoon13

  July 15, 2018

  blogging fundamentals, Burn Surviors, Catastrophic Experience, Death, Epic Fail, firstfridays, Lifelines, near death experiences, Personal, Uncategorized

  bloggingfundamentals, cracked pots, Crash and Burn, Death, Flashbacks, Intropections, Personal, PTSD, Saturday Mornings, Shame, Surviving Burns, The abysss, The Struggle is Real

• Quiet on the Blogging Front: The Happy Soul

    I’m back after a hiatus full of funk, junk and many deliveries to the local transfer station, formerly referred to as THE DUMP in childhood days.       We mark our days by events. Having surpassed the 19th anniversary of the worst day of my life, I’ve been in a funk, a funk […]

  spoon13

  July 12, 2018

  blogging fundamentals, Catastrophic Experience, firstfridays, Lifelines, Personal, Self Awareness, Uncategorized

  bloggingfundamentals, Emancipation, Flashbacks, Intropections, Junk Collector, Murphy’s Law, Personal, Rants, Self-imposed prisons, Surviving Burns, The abysss

• Excerpt #2 (1000 Deaths)

  Burn injuries are not like a broken bone that once healed, can be concealed by flesh. There is no place to hide, no protective shell to retreat beneath. Four days from this writing, July 4th, will be my 19th burn-a-versary.  There are many deaths from burn injuries: 1000 surely seems exaggerated, unless you are the […]

  spoon13

  June 30, 2018

  blogging fundamentals, Burn Surviors, Catastrophic Experience, Death, firstfridays, Lifelines, near death experiences, Personal, Uncategorized, What is normal?

  cracked pots, Death, Flashbacks, Intropections, Nothing but the dead of night, Personal, PTSD, Surviving Burns

• The Abyss

  Dear Jaydan, Your mother prepared a wonderful tribute to her beloved son: I ‘ve enclosed a note to you–– You didn’t know how much you would be missed. You didn’t know of our unfailing love for you. Your mother, your father, Your brothers and your sisters, Your Gram and many others, too. This abyss. Every […]

  spoon13

  June 24, 2018

  blogging fundamentals, Catastrophic Experience, Death, firstfridays, On the Loss of a Grandchild, Personal, Teen Suicide, Uncategorized

  bloggingfundamentals, Death, Intropections, Our Departed Beloved, Personal, Teen Suicide, The abysss

• Excerpts from 1000 Deaths

  I am posting an excerpt from writings I began several months ago. It is a true story, written in the present tense, of life after burns, yet the story in its entirety does tells of the accident,  subsequent hospitalization and such. The title 1000 Deaths is a temporary, working title at this point.       […]

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  June 16, 2018

  blogging fundamentals, Burn Surviors, Catastrophic Experience, firstfridays, Nearly Dead, Personal, Uncategorized, What is normal?

  bloggingfundamentals, cracked pots, Flashbacks, Intropections, Personal, PTSD, Saturday Mornings, Surviving Burns