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There Are No Bogeymen &Raquo; Notes To Self By Mark Obrien

There Are No Bogeymen

I’ve written about my depression before. But since this is Mental Health Awareness Month — and since every month should be Mental Health Awareness Month — I want to revisit the topic. In that earlier piece, I wrote my depression was characterized by stark, unrelenting terror. It resulted in a kind of hypervigilance, an exaggerated […]

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I’m Not Gonna Lie &Raquo; Notes To Self By Mark Obrien

I’m Not Gonna Lie

As the obsessive language freak I happen to be, I’m always sensitive to new expressions creeping into the vernacular. Most frequently, those expressions are meaningless; that is, they don’t actually express anything of substance. But they’re valuable for what they signal. And they signal four things about the people who use them. Those people: Likely […]

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Drifting &Raquo; Notes To Self By Mark Obrien

Drifting

I was sitting at my desk the other day with a characteristically blank look on my face. Anne walked by and asked, “What are you doing?” I said, “Nothing.” “You’re actually doing absolutely nothing?” she asked. “Is that even possible?” “Well, since you seem to be rather insistent about it, I’m drifting,” I said. “Drifting?” […]

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Give It A Shot &Raquo; Notes To Self By Mark Obrien

Give It a Shot

When I visit schools to share my children’s books, the students always ask, “How do you know anyone will like them?” I say, “I don’t. But if I don’t write and publish them, I’ll never know.” When I write fiction for adults, the adults who read it always ask, “How do you know anyone will […]

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My Brother’s Keeper &Raquo; Notes To Self By Mark Obrien

My Brother’s Keeper

In 1999, I was working at a small public-relations firm in Avon, Connecticut. My dentist was in the next town east, which, oddly enough, is West Hartford. (Everything is relative.) Exiting I-84 on Prospect Street, I drove north on Prospect, intending to turn left onto Farmington Avenue, the street on which my dentist’s office was […]

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A Tribute To George &Raquo; Notes To Self By Mark Obrien

A Tribute to George

Author’s Note: This story is an elaboration on a comment I posted in a thread initiated by my friend, Tammy Eldredge. It’s also a faithful recounting of an actual event and a very valuable lesson. In 1974, I was playing in a band with some guys who rented a house on West Street in Rocky […]

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Time &Raquo; Notes To Self By Mark Obrien

Time

As readers of my ravings likely know by now, my father was a U.S. Marine. To him — and, so, to us — time was an adversarial construct. There was no later. There was no gradually. There was no patience. There were just two things: (1) Now. (2) Now, God damn it! Growing up in […]

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Blending People Worldwide “For Good”

Dennis Pitocco is an extraordinary leader who has created a platform that blends people from around the world in amazing ways. He has attracted over 1000 Featured Contributors, and shares podcasts, music, events, and ongoing opportunities to be with like-minded people whose purpose is to make a difference and create a better world. Dennis and […]

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Jackie’s Dilemma

“Cockadoodle doo!” the rooster crowed for the third time. She wanted to pull the pillow over her head to shut out the persistent crowing of the rooster but knew it would not be wise.  It was time to get up and start her morning chores. Phil, as the rooster was named by one of her […]

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The Decision

The little girl sat quietly with her hands crossed at her wrists. She smoothed out her dress with the frills on the skirt nervously.  Her guardian had told her she needed to be on her best behavior because a lady was coming to meet her. At five years old Donna was what her teachers described […]

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