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FeaturedKrampus and St. Nick: How both Figures can Teach us to be Kind and Generous
Happy Krampusnacht or if you celebrate the feast of St. Nicholas. Christmas time is here! Oh Christmas time, Oh Christmas time. For many and much of the world I know it can be hard to celebrate and why should we with Covid-19, Lock downs, high unemployment, people on the verge of losing everything. One could… Read more
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FeaturedSeries Feature #22 Life in the Circus from Yesterday to Today! – Thomas Wedders (World’s Largest Nose)
Step right up, Step right up! The show is about to begin as we explore the world of the circus and those who made and make a magical place to visit. The tradition of the circus has a long incredible history as we learned from last week, but that history lesson is not over today… Read more
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FeaturedThankful for a Man of God Pastor Jeff Johnson of Calvary Chapel Downey
Being thankful is so important today. Often people get so wrapped up in what they do not have in this life like a huge paycheck, a fancy home, expensive clothes. All sounds pretty superficial but is what people tend to put stock into. I was never one of those individuals, growing up although I had… Read more
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FeaturedJust Talk with Joe Meyer VLOG-The Importance Of Being Thankful – Happy Thanksgiving
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FeaturedJust Talk with Joe Meyer Vlog – Cut My Life into Pieces Who Gives a F*ck!
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FeaturedIs Free Speech Really Free? NO and Its not a license to Say What you want without consequence.
Is free speech truly free? Before you turn the page, this is not someone spread right wing Rhetoric about your freedoms being stripped from us. No this is about how in America we have a right to speak , but there are consequences and being held accountable for spreading hate and this goes for other… Read more
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FeaturedI’m Only Happy When It Rains! Joe Meyer Vlog
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FeaturedI’m Only Happy When it Rains
I often think about what the world would look like without me it. It’s a hard question to ask ourselves at times because we are here sometimes fighting life, trying to survive. Some go through life with a silver spoon in their mouth, some are raised by parents that frankly shouldn’t even have kids and… Read more
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FeaturedWeekly Feature #20, Stories From a Childs Past: My Childhood Writing Through the Years (Conclusion) – Reintroduced
It’s so sad that this is the stories I have left from my childhood when I am sure I had more , but probably got tossed as I felt I was constantly writing at this point in my life. I do have a couple of stories I have not apart of this series but there… Read more
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FeaturedWeekly Feature #19, Stories From a Childs Past: John Adams and Abe Lincoin – Reintroduced
The piece below appears to be another report of some sort for school similar to last weeks planet origin story but that is ok. It just goes to show that often had to write reports and papers just like many of us in school. I actually have always loved learning using the old encyclopedia Brittanica… Read more
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FeaturedJust Talk with Joe Meyer Vlog – What lurks among us life after death
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FeaturedWeekly Feature #18, Stories From a Childs Past: The Planets and their Origin – Reintroduced
Today we get a school lesson that this appears to be some sort of term paper about the planets. Like many of us in school we write a lot of papers, this is one of those examples. I am unsure if this is the whole paper but an interesting piece non the less. Welcome to… Read more
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FeaturedWeekly Feature #17, Stories From a Childs Past: The Evil Queen and the Dragon-Reintroduced
I have always loved fantasy and this is one example of a short story I wrote about an evil queen and a dragon. Not sure what my fascination with fantasy is, but as a child I believe I tried to live in another world not my own. Welcome to this Weeks Weekly Feature number #17,… Read more
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FeaturedThirteen Ghost and Their Back Stories
I have often had an interest in the paranormal especially the spiritual world. Growing up as a child I had experiences with the spiritual world. I truly believe to this day that an evil entity attempted to take my life back in 2007 causing me to attempt to take my life. An earlier experience, I… Read more
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FeaturedJust Talk with Joe Meyer Vlog – Down with the Sickness and hearing Voices
Just talk as we discuss dead, the spiritual world and a bit of politics. After watching shows like #deadfiles and #ghostadventures my interest in the paranoromal continues.
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FeaturedWhat I would tell my younger self as a generation X’er.
As a generation X’er born in 1979 and being in the workforce for over twenty years, I have learned a thing or two about what I would have done differently and how my frame of mind may have been different. Growing up I grew up in a home that verbal abuse was a constant due… Read more
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FeaturedWeekly Feature #16, Stories From a Childs Past: One Evil Mother – Reintroduced
Mother’s hold a special place in our hearts, even the evil or bad ones as they often portrayed in different ways from the struggling mother to the abusive mother. Recently I have been watching a good deal of reality ghost shows like the Ghost adventures, the dead files. One thing I have noticed is that… Read more
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FeaturedIn Amerika, is it now ok to Lie, Cheat, Steal and murder? Today’s times say it is and whose going to stop me.
Rage in Amerika is at an all time high as we continue to encourage hate, spread hate and live in a self dealing mind state to Lie, cheat, steal and murder our way to get what we want. I ask is there hope for us at times.
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FeaturedWeekly Feature #15, Stories From a Childs Past: My Mothers Life Story – Reintroduced
Mother’s hold a special place in our hearts for the most part, thinking of my mothers birthday August 30, she would have been 63 years old , but passed away in 2015. I will always love my mother for her love and sacrifices she made each day for myself and sister, but I feel I… Read more
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FeaturedWeekly Feature #14, Stories From a Child’s Past: The Devils Life Story – Reintroduced
The devil exists , often times in people. This is my childhood story of that man I considered once considered the living incarnate of the devil. This Story I wrote around age twelve. #writingcommunity
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FeaturedLife, Death and The Pursuit of Happyness- Joe Meyer Vlog
Today we honor our family pet Lily recent passed. We talk Death , life and those deep questions we should all ask ourselves each day.
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FeaturedRIP Lily – Doggie Heaven Awaits (2007 – August 2022)
Goodbye old friend. Yesterday August 19th 2022 at 8:00 PM was a sad day as I lost a piece a piece of myself, her name was Lily and she was our family dog. Lily who was in the family since 2007 having personally picked her out for my mother whom is no longer here herself… Read more
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FeaturedStep into a real Asylum – Rancho Los Amigos in Downey, California
I have also found the paranormal intriguing especially the spiritual realm which I believe does exist. Having grew up in Los Angeles, there have been and are many hot spots one can visit that you just know something dwells there, most likely evil. Today there are a ton of shows that dig deep into the… Read more
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FeaturedWeekly Feature #13, Stories From a Child’s Past: The Velveteen Rabbit – Reintroduced
The Velveteen Rabbit has stood the test of time and to this day, this is by far one of my favorite stories from childhood. As a child I had my own stuffed Velveteen Rabbit my other purchased from Target. This was my comfort growing up as I would sleep with this rabbit with me until… Read more
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FeaturedFailure is not an option, but I am a failure at mostly everything I’ve done in life
I often reflect on my life from childhood until today recounting those of life’s accomplishments and where I am today in my life. I can honestly say I have not accomplished as much as I had hoped but I believe its most due to my upbringing and my own self-destructive attitude at times. Growing up… Read more
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FeaturedWeekly Feature #12, Stories From a Child’s Past: My Childhood Story – Reintroduced
I often like to write about my past experiences in my life as a way to reflect trueness to who I am and how I lived as a child. This was one of those examples of my life story. Although my life story is pretty typical of some growing up, its my own. I was… Read more
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FeaturedJust Talk with Joe Meyer Vlog- The eccentricities of Crime why we should all just shut up!
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FeaturedWhat the great resignation has taught us about how employers don’t a Sh*t about you and I
The great resignation has taught us what is truly important in our lives and careers, and we should listen. Employers want us to believe we need them, but in actuality they need us to produce record profits for them. Here is what we can do for our careers and ourselves to overcome these changing times.
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FeaturedWeekly Feature #11, Stories From a Child’s Past: Marty the Rat and his Adventure – Reintroduced
I loved short stories as a child , even today but often dont write many short stories but probably should. I remember at times when I was feeling down, sad , happy I would just sit down and write my short story as it was stuck in my head at that point, always having paper… Read more
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FeaturedMy Morbid Curiosity with Victorian Post-Mortem Photography and Death masks
Living in the 21st century there are many things that we have today , that those in past centuries would never think we have today like cell-phones, technology and computers. I often think about past centuries that lived basically in the dark ages with no electricity, no running water and the basic necessities we take… Read more
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FeaturedWeekly Feature #10, Stories From a Child’s Past: Cowboy Sam and His Tricks – Reintroduced
Cowboys and Indians are for the most part a love of boys growing up and even today they continue to be popular themes and a reality of our history here in the US. Today its probably poltically incorrect to refer to indians as indians but more indigitonous people. Either way I have love the old… Read more
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FeaturedRaging about Stranger Things in Strange Times – VLOG
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FeaturedStranger Things was eh, But a step in time for me and the generation X.
Stranger Things, a television phenomenon that has attracted the likes of new generations. My daughter who is 9 years asked to watch this show because many of her friends have seen it. In all honestly I have heard about this show but never really had any interest in seeing it for some reason. I think… Read more
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FeaturedWeekly Feature #9, Stories From a Child’s Past: The Halloween House – Reintroduced
Here comes Halloween, here comes Halloween! I know Halloween is technically not for a few months, but I have seen some stores gradually begin to introduce decorations. I have always been a fan of Halloween the halloween and the movies, being a horror fan. This was no different when I was a young boy. My… Read more
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FeaturedRage Against the Machine!
The machine, when you think of this term what does it mean to you. When I think of the machine I think of a repressive system, society filled with greed, hate and angry. We as world are supposed to be intelligent. But as I go through life at still the young age of 42 ,… Read more
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FeaturedWeekly Feature #8, Stories From a Child’s Past: The Adventure of Cookie the Dog – Reintroduced
Just looking at the title of this story with Adventures of Cookie the Dog and it brings back incredible memories of my dog Cookie. Cookie was the family dog , a dog given to us by mother and who was given to her by an aunt. This dog was given to my grandparents Isabel and… Read more
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FeaturedHow anger can help fuel the better you!
Anger can be an important emotion driving us in our life, but it can be used for the good. It can provide us focus and see things we don’t always see, this is how I funneled my anger for good.
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FeaturedWeekly Feature #7: Stories From a Child’s Past: Oliver Twist with a Twist – Reintroduced
Can you believe we are already at story number seven in this reintroduction of my childhood stories. Certainty time flies as I go into a story that I feel was a forgotten animation from my past. As a child like most children I loved movies, especially disney animations and others non-disney which were just as… Read more
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FeaturedWeekly Feature#6: Stories from a Child’s Past: All About Zuogie – Reintroduced
As an reintroduction of my childhood written stories it amazed me the ideas I came up at around age twelve. I was still a young writers learning my craft but having an appreciation even at that young age. This story was no different but involves a snake in this sorry. Personally I dont have a… Read more
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FeaturedHappy Fourth of July 2022
Happy Independence Day! I find this day important in our historyas we celebrate most not realizing the significance of this day. As an Americanit gets lost on me the importance but many of us Non historians will focus onthe extra day off, time with family, Bar-B-Ques and some sparklers. Where I live Fireworks of any… Read more
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FeaturedHappy Independance Day – What Does Our Constitution Stand for? – Joe Meyer Vlog.
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FeaturedMy next chapter of Writing and Beyond!
This week I have begun the long and ardious process of querying my finished novel Helix 2029. This piece of work which I began in 2018 and for a the past few years have whittled it down from a monsterous over one hundred and seventy thousand words to around one hundred thousand words now. I… Read more
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FeaturedShould I care about Abortion? Or is this just a sign of times to come.
I often look at the times today and see how I can adjust my perspective for myself and guide my family in having a realistic view of what is happening in society. Society is shit in all honestly as much as I hope for the better in humanity, I know its only getting worse. The… Read more
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FeaturedHow Writing Can Help Un-Tap Your Creative Side and Heal at The Same Time
Writing has an important part of daily life, but more and more individuals choose to forgo writing in exchange for technology such as Social Media and television. The benefits of writing are huge especially when it comes mental health, being creative and being better communicators. Let’s all see how we write more and reap the benefits.
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FeaturedWeekly Feature#5: Stories from A Child’s Past: The Americana Way of Life in The Old West – Reintroduced
The wild west like pirates has always been a fasination of mine. Although I have not watched many westerns in TV and movies, I loved the idea of the traveling by horse although I can only imagine it was a horrible way to travel. One of favorite films that involves the Old west is Back… Read more
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FeaturedHappy Father’s Day 2022
Father’s Day! A day that many out there surprisingly hate due to the nature of their relationship with their father or lack thereof. I often think of my own father who is still alive today whose name is Moses. A man I love and he has been present in my life but not really present.… Read more
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FeaturedFather’s Day and the Importance of Fatherhood VLOG
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FeaturedDiscovering Your Life’s Purpose After College
Finding our place in the world is so important to many, including myself, but the world is a big place, even if you’re living in a small town, the world can seem even smaller. Going through years of education from kinder to college, a lot can be packed in all those years. Depending on where… Read more
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FeaturedWeekly Feature#4: Stories From a Child’s Past: The Pirate Captain – Reintroduced
The last three stories have given you a glimpse even more so into my mind that that tender age around twelve years old. From IT to Monsters to Giant Lizards. You can only imagine what is to come. Natually this week is about Pirates. I have always loved the sea, but I have loved pirates.… Read more
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FeaturedKrampus and St. Nick: How both Figures can Teach us to be Kind and Generous
Happy Krampusnacht or if you celebrate the feast of St. Nicholas. Christmas time is here! Oh Christmas time, Oh Christmas time. For many and much of the world I know it can be hard to celebrate and why should we with Covid-19, Lock downs, high unemployment, people on the verge of losing everything. One could… Read more
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