Robert J. Relyea

My First Day

I can still remember my first day in kindergarten. It was still 3 years before my parents split. We were living in Philadelphia, stationed in naval residence; my dad was in his 8th year in the Navy, still 7 away from retirement. Mom dropped my older sisters off at the elementary school. My kindergarten classContinue reading “My First Day”

Letter From the Candle Smoke

To 2019 Me, Has it really been 5 years already? Time… what a bitch, huh? Dude, you’re a dad. By the time you open this letter, you’ve been a dad for nearly five years. But right now, it’s still pretty incredible to think about for 2014 Me. In little more than a month, Zackary XavierContinue reading “Letter From the Candle Smoke”

Deep

It’s 3:45 a.m. Insomnia is winning again. Tomorrow’s a day off, so at least there’s that. Zack went to sleep 6 hours ago while watching Wreck-It Ralph. Jess didn’t last much longer. Even the dog has been curled up in his dog bed since midnight. It’s just me stirring in the house into the witchingContinue reading “Deep”

You Win, Or You Die

(This is a Game of Thrones post, just so everyone who proudly shouts that they don’t watch it can bypass it easily) The immensely popular series Game of Thrones came to a decisive and rather controversial end. Everyone has an opinion on the final stymied six-episode season. But I’m going to forgo delving into anContinue reading “You Win, Or You Die”

The Trifecta

If you’re to create something powerful and important, you must at the very least be driven by an equally powerful inner force – Ryan Holiday Everyone has the capacity to be creative. But not everyone can create. Creativity is subjective to the situation and is connected to craftiness and cleverness in other formats. To createContinue reading “The Trifecta”