called morning pages. Morning pages are three pages of writing done every day, typically encouraged to be in "long hand", typically done in the morning, that can be about anything and everything that comes into your head. It's about getting it all out of your head, and is not supposed to be edited or censored in any way. The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, th...

My wife, and I were five weeks into our pregnancy, when she started spotting. At that time we lived just minutes from the hospital. We immediately went to the emergency room at the hospital for my wife to be seen. Like normal we got called back to the examination room and we told the doctor what was going on. He did his examination on her and he ordered for my wife to have an ultrasound done. Af...

Some say men don’t show emotions, but when Ricky was holding his baby for the first time he showed many emotions. Words weren’t needed and the smile on his little baby boy face lit the room up. It was as real as it gets. While Ricky was setting on the couch holding his little boy, he counted his fingers and toes. The newborn smell, expression, funny little noises and super soft skin. The look of...

I cautiously speed-walked down the street. Between west and sycamore street. This town was abandoned, ever since the rapture. Nothing has ever been the same. I was once just a janitor in a hospital and now I'm on the run from a gang of scavengers. I was never into the bible, God didn't seem real. My youth brought me nothing but misfortune and heartache. My mother was a big believer along with my d...

as we walked through the town, we found a few pieces of things you wouldn’t expect people to leave. the pictures of their families, recipes, some money. broke our hearts to find so many people that had passed due to not making it out before they got here...