I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.
Tags: hopelessness, hope, goodness

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New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.
Tags: architecture, experience, food, music
I'm a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing songwriters and recording artists, and so juggling my job I carve out as much time as I can on the weekends.
Tags: time, business, music, work
I clung to books and words because, unlike people, they’d never abandon me.
Tags: heartache, books, abandonment
I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.
Tags: reading, books
Mileage doesn’t make the man.
Tags: work, truth, life-lessons, effort
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