by James McAllen | May 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
He sets his alarm for 4am, but much like the 9-year-old still living deep inside him, he wakes up at 2:30, and can’t fall back to sleep. So rather than toss and turn, he slips quietly from his bed, and heads downstairs in the dark. After cruising the news sites for an...
by James McAllen | Sep 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
They have a saying where I come from, “Hurt people, hurt people.” It’s a play on words. You can say that it’s a perverted form of “Do unto others as others have done unto you.” In some ways, I’ve lived my life according to that code. Things weren’t always so pretty in...
by James McAllen | Jun 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
5 Hours. It’s an extra-inning baseball game. It’s a half a day of work. It’s the equivalent of the drive to Boston. But when you’re sitting in the waiting room as your wife is having brain surgery, it’s an eternity. Eternity has just begun. It’s been a 6 month...
by James McAllen | Jan 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
It’s 3am. I can’t sleep. I haven’t slept properly in weeks. I fall asleep at 11pm, and I’m wide awake at 2am, mind racing, with no chance of going back to sleep. And so, I wander the hallways of my mind. i.e. — I go on Facebook. I’ve never been one to worry about the...
by James McAllen | Dec 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
I ruined Christmas — again Ok, not really. Well, kinda. Ok. A little background first. I’m not a big fan of Christmas. It’s the most stressful holiday imaginable. Not only do you have crowds, and traffic, and shopping and spending ridiculous amounts of money, you...
