Michelle Tackabery

9-11: One giant PTSD trigger

Today is the anniversary of the last day of the past. On September 12, 2001, things started changing in America. Seeds had been planted: seeds of ideas, seeds of change, and seeds of terror. The ...

Sep, 11

Listening to music on my television

Interconnectivity is the feature creep of our age. Facebook’s resurgence and now blatant armed takeover of online content means that every piece of text you enter, tag, or share, which is the same thing, pins ...

Apr, 30

Stop forgiving

Recently I was personally asked to support a Wolfpack basketball player who is going through rehab for a severe spinal cord injury. I decided not to send money to his rehab fund. Why talk publicly ...

Apr, 05

Maybe some of them was in tunnels . . .

  Some folks has a lot of things around them that shines for other peoples. I think that maybe some of them was in tunnels. And in that tunnel, the only light they had, was ...

Mar, 22

The Smell of Life

I have been reading William T. Vollman‘s The Royal Family on my Kindle. It is an addictive read, but a long, indulgent slog — I find myself wanting to stop reading but unable to, like ...

Nov, 04
Exposure therapy, Tackabery style

Exposure therapy, Tackabery style

I have made a promise to myself that I will work on my book five days of the week. Not necessarily the week days or the equivalent hours to a five-workday week, but just in ...

Jul, 08
Atsür scores 25 in bronze-medal victory

Atsür scores 25 in bronze-medal victory

Apparently taking “don’t give up, don’t ever give up,” to heart, Engin Atsür scored a team-high 25 points to lead Turkey to a bronze-medal victory in the finals of the Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy. ...

Jul, 06

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