This weeks feature story from my childhood past is a real dozy, untitled piece of work, but some frightening in what was written. I have left the transcribed version in it's original context, which may drive some of you crazy because its one big run on sentence. I must have been in middle school between… Continue reading Weekly Feature #3: Stories From a Child’s Past : The Monster That Ate
Author: Joseph R. Meyer
A Writer’s Life: The Struggle, The Fight to Never Give Up!
As a writer, something I will call myself simply because of not only my love for writing but my love for reading and knowledge. For those following my blog, you will see and be a part of my Weekly features of writings from my childhood past. Reflecting on my life as a writer, I stopped… Continue reading A Writer’s Life: The Struggle, The Fight to Never Give Up!
Weekly Feature: Stories From a Child’s Past: The Lizard and The Secret Pond.
This is the second feature in my Weekly feature posts, this piece was undated so it's hard to say what age I was, it appears to probably be between the ages of eight to ten years old as the writing had many grammatical and some spelling errors. I can only imagine why I wrote this… Continue reading Weekly Feature: Stories From a Child’s Past: The Lizard and The Secret Pond.
Metropolis and The Reflections of Today From 1927 Film by Fritz Lang
I am a lover of classic films, black and White, silent with just the sounds of instruments and subtitles. The love of silent films is not for everyone, some have a hard time adjusting to not hearing talking. I find these films most intriguing imagining those actors and actress act out those roles, knowing that… Continue reading Metropolis and The Reflections of Today From 1927 Film by Fritz Lang
Weekly Feature: Stories From a Child’s Past: The IT
I have always been a reader and a writer growing up and it until now it has been my escape in a way, an escape especially during my childhood, where I could imagine and create worlds and lose myself in a story that I wrote. For those who follow me on Twitter, many weeks go… Continue reading Weekly Feature: Stories From a Child’s Past: The IT
Failures and Success, How Writing Helps Ease My Mind in Times of Trouble
Am I doing to much? is a question I tend to ask myself a lot, but most of the time I feel like I am not doing enough. Although we are all different with different struggles, personalities and traits, we all are human and have certain limitations. Some of us have a ingrained spirit to… Continue reading Failures and Success, How Writing Helps Ease My Mind in Times of Trouble
Homelessness, The Sad Reality, Don’t Look Away, Their Human Too!
Homelessness is a tragic and terrible thing that has wreaked society not just in the United States, but through out the world. But on a closer note to how it affects where I live, having lived in Los Angeles, now I live about forty five miles away from what is called Skid-Row. Having grew up… Continue reading Homelessness, The Sad Reality, Don’t Look Away, Their Human Too!
Reading: The Tools You Need In Better Writing Are In a Good Book!
Reading! something that many simply do not like to do, but most of us our taught at a young age the importance of reading, something I impart on my daughter who is six years old. It appears my daughter loves to ready and be read too, something I admit I started late doing to her,… Continue reading Reading: The Tools You Need In Better Writing Are In a Good Book!
Mental Illness, The Struggle and Being Victorious!
Mental Illness is Not a dirty word Mental illness, a word that many will hear and associate with many different things, some look at mental illness as a taboo when it comes to talking about the subject. Although it seems like society is adjusting to the subject being blasted across the news, the news doesn't… Continue reading Mental Illness, The Struggle and Being Victorious!
Saying Goodbye To The Evil House
Today marks a chapter in my life with the selling of my fathers house in South Los Angeles, a house that my father has lived in most of his life over forty years and he is now 63 years old. This house was my grandparents house who raised my Father Moses, Sister Elizabeth, Rachel and… Continue reading Saying Goodbye To The Evil House