Creating Imaginative Worlds with Writing
Happy Birthday Mom (Linda Gutierrez), it has been always ten years since you have been with us, but you are missing every day. You would have been celebrating your 66th birthday today. Imagining we would be celebrating your birthday simply at your favorite restaurant, Olive Garden, you were simple like that no fancy restaurants and… Continue reading Celebrating the Life and Legacy of My Late Mother
Shame is a prevalent part of my life each day, I wake up with shame and I go to sleep with shame, as one of the main themes in my life for years now which is one of the reasons I wrote Runaway, Shame, my memoir out December 1st, yes that is my shameless plug,… Continue reading Confronting Career and Financial Shame: My Journey
I often play conversations in my head, not sure if anyone does what you may say to a person at home, at work in various scenarios. I re-play words/conversations in my might regularly in how I am going to explain to my family one when I am no longer here. Sadly the only conversation I… Continue reading The Voices in My Head
Second chances are always appreciated in our lives whether it’s a second chance at a relationship or a career or to rebuild. I can honestly say I have gotten a few second chances in life especially after my Suicide attempt in 2007. At that point in my life which I was in my mid-twenties I… Continue reading Overcoming Adversity: How Second Chances Change Lives
The author reflects on feeling a loss of personal joy despite loving their family. They reminisce about brighter times and battle inner turmoil, believing their own value is diminishing. Writing serves as an escape and a legacy, while they grapple with life's challenges and existential thoughts about significance and worth.
It feels great to look forward to things in life, like a vacation, a promotion, a baby, a marriage, the lists goes now. Sadly, I don’t have many of these moments anymore, although yes there are those milestones likes birthdays and celebrations I look forward to, but those happen each year. I guess for myself,… Continue reading The Distortion of a Fragile Mind on Edge
The story of my life has been no easy feat, although I have had a my share of good and bad like most. Each of us has a story to tell, even if you think your story is not that interesting or even boring, but you would find that others can find inspiration and hope… Continue reading Finding Strength in My Autobiography: The Forgotten Son
The beast of my life has not been satisfied by my most recent Autobiography "The Forgotten Son" and although I am very proud of the work I have put out giving the reader a picture of my whole life, there is one piece that still affects me each and every day and that is my… Continue reading Confronting My Inner Beast: A Memoir on Mental Health
For some of us, we may say good riddance to the previous year, for me that was 2023 and I was on the verge of saying that to 2024, but had to really think about this year, the struggles, the blessings. No year is perfect although 2022 was close to great along with 2021, which… Continue reading Overcoming Challenges: A Journey Towards Hope in 2025
It gives me pleasure in announcing I have completed the first draft of my autobiography and memoire, which took me over a year to write the first draft coming out to close to 145K words, but that is just the beginning as I will surely be adding pictures and additional chapters like the forwards and… Continue reading Self-Publishing My Autobiography: The Forgotten Boy
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