About The Author.
Randall stands at six feet five inches tall and has suffered from the desire to write for a good majority of his strange life. With daily tempest raging in his head, and creative impulses coming out his finger tips- he keeps this blog to help him understand the life he has imagined living. Growing up in a wealthy family he saw first hand how money does not make you happy (although he is starting to reconsider this conclusion). When he graduated from college- he renounced financial wealth and worked at many jobs, while trying to figure out what he was going to do with his life. Years later he dropped out of graduate school and decided to dedicate himself to a life long pursuit of writing, painting, activism, teaching and somehow saving the world. He has worked as a waiter, high school teacher, administrative assistant, tutor, bartender, free-lance writer, delivery man, cook and pizza maker. Now, much to his family’s apprehension, he is 37 years old and still determined to write the great American novel (or blog). He lives with his wife (who desperately wants children), two cats, a plethora of unsold paintings and sees a psychologist once a week.











21 Comments
December 5, 2007 at 8:52 am
happy trails
December 13, 2007 at 7:02 am
Trying the best I can!
December 17, 2007 at 9:21 am
You are wonderful!!
December 17, 2007 at 9:22 am
Suffering is identification with form.
December 18, 2007 at 7:13 am
Oh? And you lead me to believe you were an unemployed soon to be teacher, or did I miss something here.
December 18, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Currently I am unemployed. I have saved enough money that I am fortunate to not have to work. I spend my days writing, painting, cleaning the house and worrying about death. For a long while I taught high school English and am now looking for work once again as a Teacher. So I am in what Dante called- Limbo, neither here nor there, or what Buddhists call samsara, a place of suffering because of the fear of being no place at all. If I was perfectly content and fearless being no place at all- this would be called Enlightenment.
Thank you for all your clever comments…..
Let me know if you have other questions that I may have the fun of answering…..
January 25, 2008 at 8:59 am
Still trying to figure out who I am. Long hours spent writing this blog have helped to rip away many unconscious layers…but I am still searching.
February 21, 2008 at 3:27 am
I love Dante’s “Divine Comedy”, especially the “Inferno.”I like your clever little bits of spiritual wisdom. They sound beautiful and honest. Good luck finding your way. ^_^
March 12, 2008 at 10:42 am
Sorry, I’m on a bit of an extending-my-stay visit. Just to say, unless you enjoy it, but I’m guessing not, as you called it worrying, may I try to discourage worrying about death as maniacally as possible while just about remaining within the bounds of the law? I’ve got a feeling I gave a good dollop of time over to worrying about death and then somehow I made it stop. Or made myself stop. Told myself I wouldn’t worry about it any more. And I mostly don’t. Though I do still, a bit. Which is not to say I’m not a fuck-up, because I am, but a better fuck-up than I was when I worried too much about death.
I’m liking your writing a lot.
March 12, 2008 at 5:11 pm
by the way, i love the picture of you here. you look like you just got busted doing something… sheepish, but in a ‘oh f***ing well’ way… ha!
March 12, 2008 at 5:17 pm
You are correct Elisabeth82- it is my mug shot! And I was caught doing something terribly sheepish.
March 13, 2008 at 1:40 am
Hello, you’ve got a great blog. I noticed you commented on a post of mine and I just wanted to say that it made me laugh. Thanks a lot for taking the time
March 28, 2008 at 10:04 pm
“Suffering is identification with form’. too true, and the mind, time, and all of that jazz.
March 28, 2008 at 10:41 pm
thank you for the reminder. Does this include even the female form?
March 29, 2008 at 8:53 am
i would like a testicle cap.
April 5, 2008 at 7:55 am
This is a very insightful weblog Randall.
I do look forward to reading more of your thoughts as they make themselves known to you.
Happy blogging to you friend.
April 7, 2008 at 11:31 am
artistic mind and talk! pls, say “hi” to your shrink from me;
maybe you’re the one that cures him ^_^
April 29, 2008 at 3:41 am
you are brilliant…period
April 29, 2008 at 5:23 am
…..you are much to kind. But I must say I do agree with you (:
May 27, 2008 at 4:43 am
Randall can write. Keep it up. I can see that (it should be) very cathartic for you. I hope so.
June 6, 2008 at 6:29 am
The more of your work I read the smaller and less sugnifigant my work becomes. It does not compare to the wording that you and your friends use. Being 15 I understand that I have a long way to go and can achieve this level of speaking but for now I am completly blown away.
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