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Rainier Writing Workshop
"I am impressed with the caliber, commitment, and generosity of the faculty. Their willingness to engage with us in and out of our classroom made this experience unlike any other I've had."
"I am impressed with the caliber, commitment, and generosity of the faculty. Their willingness to engage with us in and out of our classroom made this experience unlike any other I've had."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry. Oversight of program.
Statement: "I've always been intrigued by these two connotations of the word craft—that it refers to something like technique, and also that it refers to cunning. Which is to say that we writers handle materials that, when handled just so, lead to a sort of alchemy. The most powerful pieces of writing, then, contain an infinite complexity—a complexity that's tangible and undefinable at the same time. And all of this is done in the writer's solitude, which seems its own mixture of materiality and expansiveness.
Even though I believe that a strong piece of writing generates something like magic, I also believe in tough-minded examinations of the thematic and formal elements that we use as writers. As a teacher, I prefer discussions in which everyone seems to have a lab coat on, detailing the mechanics of the work at hand. How a piece achieves its force through writerly decisions—decisions which have been guided by thought and feeling, insight and intuition, analysis and imagination, failure and risk—this is what I care about.
As a necessary complement to the writer's solitary work, the conversations we have about each other's work can be as vital as the work itself. With as much rigor and delight as possible, we engage in what Czeslaw Milosz described as the purpose of poetry: 'the passionate pursuit of the real.'"
Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction.
Statement: "In my view, the best thing a workshop can provide is excitement. By focusing on where a story is most original, most engaging – where it 'burns the brightest,' as I heard someone say last summer – the workshop can locate ideas and scenes a writer may not have realized had so much potential. It's easy to lose faith in something you're working on; in fact, losing faith in your own work may well be an essential part of writing well. So part of the workshop's job is to help you locate that spark, where your work is most alive, original, memorable. And then send you on your way again."
Master Classes in Poetry.
Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry.
Statement: "One of poetry's capacities is to reveal a process of thinking by feeling. The imprint of a poet's mind in his or her poems is one distinguishing factor, and that imprint is relayed through form and revealed through content. My understanding of poetry is that we make these kinds of formal decisions both consciously and unconsciously. If one decides to write a poem in free verse, that's a catalyzing formal decision. The more you understand what those decisions are, how you arrived at your assumptions about them, and what their consequences are beforehand, then the more you will be able to master the emotional, formal, ideational, psychic, and spiritual demands that arise in your poems. What I mean is, you can say you want to focus on content only but in the end we're all going to be discussing form (in workshops, in discussions, on panels, in mentoring). Discovering form is not just the filter but the catalyst for content and for finding one's subject, and for creating communion with some readers somewhere. Focusing on form strengthens our capacities to reinvent our imaginative representations of experience.
Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction and nonfiction.
Statement: "Never comfortable with abstractions, I encourage my students to read widely and to practice a variety of ways to explore their works in progress as deeply as possible. I look for students' strengths and point out doors to open. I ask students to uncover their stories, whether in fiction or nonfiction, and I question every aspect of their work as it relates to their stories."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction.
Statement: "Writing is a process: part thought, part instinct, part wish. Every honest draft holds some glimmer of what your work might become. To write is to try, try, and try again, until we're stunned to arrive at the revelation of new understanding. Through study of creative nonfiction literary form and strategy we find new ways to uncover meaning and render actuality, which is why I ask students to analyze craft. Yet I no longer believe, as I did when I began teaching over twenty years ago, that my first job is to identify and repair flaws on your draft pages. Editing too soon is futile. Writing is revision. Critique is suggestion. First I help you identify and re-identify the intention, voice and form of your project, and will often suggest you write it again, with one ear keyed to what you know and the other open to ongoing attempt. Write until you've surprised yourself; then we'll attend to the sound, pace, texture, language, image and other points of unfinished beauty."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry and nonfiction.
Statement: "I've taught many kinds of workshops--one-shot 3-hour sessions, weekend retreats, and semester-long creative writing classes. Sometimes students come into a workshop simply wanting a push, sometimes they need help finding their voices. Everyone talks about 'finding a voice,' as if we all knew what this means. We don't. I don't. What I can do in a workshop is to help students allow themselves to be clumsy, foolish, and sometimes nuts in their writing, while loosely hanging onto the reins. What are the reins? I don't know that, either, but we can figure it out by looking closely at the best work we can get our hands on. No one ever had a 'voice' that came from nowhere. It develops partly from bouncing off other voices—the ones in the workshop, and the ones on the page. I dearly love being around when the bounce lands in new territory."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction.
Statement: "My success in the publishing world is limited, but my success as a writer has been boundless. Every book I have written has taken me on an adventure I would have thought impossible beforehand. I am a middle-aged man, and there are fewer and fewer things I know. But I know what it takes to write. I know the fear; I know the dangers and demons; and I know the joy. As a teacher, I try to help students understand this journey, and I try to help them live it as the adventure of their lifetime."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry.
Statement: "One of my goals in the writing workshop is to help students enhance what is idiosyncratically best in their writing while they simultaneously try other directions. There's a context for this kind of teaching. The short story writer Al Landwehr once told me that the act of writing well is like the act of reading the best book you've ever read. You are utterly transported, ecstatic. But, as Al noted, the next day you come back to your work and you realize that what you have written is not the best thing in literary history. In fact, it can't walk; it has warts; it hacks like a consumptive. As a writing teacher, I hope to help you readily achieve the first ascendant state of creativity and quickly overcome the second deflating state of starting over. The whole enterprise need not be a jaw-clenching struggle; it should be a habitual, quotidian pleasure."
Editor in Residence. Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction and poetry.
Statement: "I am an editor because I am a writer; I am a writer because at some point--I believe I was in my mid-twenties--simply taking in the world no longer seemed enough, and because I have crazy but loving dreams of whacking a few readers in the gut the way my favorite writers have whacked me. I try to edit via compassionate insinuation [from the Latin insinuare: to introduce by windings and turnings], doing my best to enter the intention and spirit of a piece to determine how it might be finished more completely and accurately. But I also edit via compassionate fiat, because some things just don't work if you fail to handle them thoughtfully enough. In one sense, I suppose, there's what a good editor must strive to be: thoughtful enough. And, I would argue, good writers must be so as well. Once I sat at a dinner gathering of writers and said, 'For a piece of writing to be genuinely great, someone has to want to kill you for having written it.' This isn't true, of course, but I think it's next door to something that needs to be true."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction.
Statement: "I believe good creative nonfiction requires the mastery of certain fundamental craft techniques, including character, setting, tone, dialogue, and transition. In addition, our success is defined by the ability to learn and apply the essentials of sound storytelling, including learning how to energize our narrative arcs. But beyond all that, I'm a big fan of an old, anonymous saying: 'If you want to work on your art, work on your life.' Literary nonfiction writers are well served by a constant and curious investigation of the world at large, as well as of their own internal conclusions and desires."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry, mixed-genre, and criticism.
Statement: "I love the reciprocal relationship between technical matters on the one hand, and subject matter on the other. I've been focused for years on how the explosiveness of just being alive can call into question the aptness of one's acquired technique. Equally, I've been fascinated with how a technical revision—cutting a weak stanza, say, or letting the sound of a word dictate a next phrase that unmoors some of a poem's original intended meaning—can sometimes result in vastly livelier subject matter. I think that the most difficult and rewarding thing about being a writer is that we are forced to honor two opposite and essential necessities at once: the necessity to learn and master craft, and the necessity to be given over to a process that takes us beyond our conscious intentions into something more akin to dreaming. I go to lengths to make sure that my workshops and mentor relationships honor this rich doubleness."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry.
Statement: "It is my belief that everyone can write poems. We just have to relearn how to let go of our preconceptions, our fears, and allow the poem lead to us where it wants us to go with language. It is my duty as a mentor to assist with the journey to that place within us where our particular poems live."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction.
Statement: "I don't believe there's any one route to writing good fiction and, sorrowfully, I also have come to believe that the magic book or teacher possessing the secret of fiction writing does not actually exist. I do, however, believe in the value of the twined practices of revision and obsessively close reading, as well as the great promise of intuitive leaps, emotional honesty and constant exploration. As a mentor, I ask a lot of questions, and I tend to prod my students also into asking questions of their own work. The wonderful Canadian writer Catherine Bush writes, 'The novel needs curiosity the way a river needs water,' and I could not agree more. I'm also particularly interested in the ways in which narrative architecture can alter, intensify, or obscure a story, so I often focus on structure as well. My goal as a teacher is to act as an informed yet curious companion, sometimes guiding, sometimes badgering, always listening."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry.
Statement: "My goal is to help mentees say what they came to say. Sometimes that involves counseling them to take chances they've been avoiding, since for poetry to matter, everything must be risked. Or so I think. That aside, for mentees to flower, two things are absolutely necessary: a safe place and stimulation. To this end, I adore sharing my favorite writers with my students and also assigning fine writers whom I don't personally respond to but I think might be useful to a given mentee. In all of this I think of myself as a coach rather than a traditional teacher, which means I see my mentees and I as a team. This is lucky work my colleagues and I have, and I'm pretty sure we know it."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction nonfiction, and poetry.
Statement: "For me, the greatest pleasure in teaching is spotting what is most promising in a poem, story, novel, or essay—and going from there. Finding the possibilities in a piece of writing requires generous and attentive reading. It is hard, empathic work but can be far more rewarding than starting with the critical scalpel and going flaw-hunting. The flaws tend to dry up and flake off the page without much messy coercion if the reader and writer agree on what and where the real promise is. One of my favorite metaphors I draw from the sport of curling: when teaching, I like to think of myself as the person with the broom clearing the way for another's earnest intentions."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction.
Statement: "I hope to help writers bring forward the value of their vision. To that end, I'm particular about clarity of language, and I encourage experimentation with form and technique. I hope to coach writers to discover ever new pleasures in the effort to communicate and create."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Statement: "Listening has become a philosophy for me as both a teacher and a writer. I've become a better writer by way of paying more attention to what my writing is trying to convey to me as I'm working on it. I've become a better teacher by way of giving my students more 'say' in the classroom. As a reader, I'm often trying to help other writers discover their work's 'truest' impulses. And though I've been teaching for thirty-two years now, I still get chills when I read a terrific passage in a manuscript or when a member of a workshop speaks with illuminating generosity. It's not that I don't have opinions that I'm eager to share--in recent years, I've even found myself pounding the table and surprising myself with the passion of my words, something I was far too cool to do in my first twenty-five years of teaching."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction, poetry, criticism, and fiction.
Statement: "I believe in passionate memory, remembered passion, and the long, slow, often lonely, labors of the writer. That said, I also believe in the joint effort that can result in inspired revision. My deepest interest is in how to shape material, how to discover the underlying issues and then find a structure to enhance them. In both fiction and nonfiction, I like to see where personal experience intersects with the imaginary (or the critical) way of thinking. I look forward to a freewheeling discussion where questions count more than answers."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction.
Statement: "Years ago, unable to put one sentence in front of another, I ran into one of my teachers. 'How goes the writing?' he asked. When I told him I was stuck, he said: 'What question are you trying to answer?'
Not that I simmered it down to a single question, nor were all the answers ever revealed (of course not), but I was able to go back to my project. He'd reminded me: first, about the urgency of the work—the point and the reason; second, about the role of mentors and the value of community. Solitary though we may be, we writers mean to reach out—to communicate and connect—having everything to do with the questions we ask of ourselves and each other.
In my view, therefore, it's my job to ask questions, and to insist that whatever my students are writing—journalism, memoir, essay, humor, criticism—the stakes are high. It's not that they have to be traumatized and tormented, only genuinely engaged and inspired to figure things out. I'm there to encourage them; to keep them honest: to remind them it isn't supposed to be easy. It's supposed to be almost impossible, in fact, but worth doing (per Joan Didion and Patricia Hampl) with the goal of discovering what they think and what they know. They are not required to have the answers before they begin: if they did, I tell them, they wouldn't have to write in the first place."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction and poetry.
Statement: "In my workshops, I am not interested in 'fixing' so-called flawed texts; fixing is the work of morticians. I am interested in helping writers discover what their drafts want to be when they grow up. How do we locate the essay hiding within the messay, the memoir stalled on a ME-more track, the poem trying to sing its way out of the journal's pages? Our task as writers is not only to pay attention to our world but also to use the materials of the world in extraordinary ways. To do this, we must uncover the subtle design, the 'figure in the carpet' that is woven into even the most everyday events. Often we must proceed without knowing what form the work will finally take. We write our way into the question, into the mystery. Writing begets more writing; meaning grows on the page."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction and nonfiction.
Statement: "I've heard writers say that, to avoid influence, they never read fiction when they're writing it. I, on the other hand, want to be influenced—by everything: the shadows on the sidewalk, the expression on a stranger's passing face, the music from an open window and, yes, other writers. I want to borrow power and style and voice, use them to challenge and stretch me. If that influence is too strong in the first draft, by the time the novel or story has gone through several revisions, it will have subsumed all those influences, taken them in and become its own thing. The same ought to be true for a writing workshop. We should be influenced and challenged by all those other minds—and yet in the end, emerge with our own, unique voice, an amalgamation that isn't an amalgamation at all."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction.
Statement: "As both a writer and a teacher, I'm so interested in how we make authentic connections, especially in a world that has grown so busy and 'digitized' that such connections can be rare, fleeting, and absolutely stunning. I look forward to being witness, cheerleader, mentor, and companion as you find your true voice in creative nonfiction."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction.
Statement: "As a writer, I am endlessly surprised and fascinated by the possibilities offered by narrative and by language; as a teacher, I try to get students excited about those possibilities by sharing my discoveries and encouraging them to make discoveries of their own. Above all, I try on a daily basis to remind myself and my students of the joy that literature can provide both reader and writer, the relief from a world that often suppresses joy, the pleasure of finding a way to communicate genuinely what it feels like to be human. What a wonderful way to spend one's life, working day after day to compose, in the words of the great William Goyen, 'the music of what was.'"
Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction and nonfiction.
Statement: "My greatest commitment as both a writer and a teacher is to writing that originates in deep personal investment because I believe that only by writing from this place in ourselves do we produce real art. For this reason, I think the most valuable expertise I can bring to my students is not my education in literature, nor what I've learned about craft after practicing it for twenty years, although I'll bring those, too. It's my ability to listen: to students, as they describe their interests, backgrounds, and aspirations, and to their drafts, from their earliest conceptions to their final stages. Through this kind of close listening, I help students find their passions. I guide them towards discovering and developing their own authentic voices. And I teach them to identify and then realize their drafts' richest potential."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction and poetry.
Statement: "In any writing workshop, my goal is to help participants figure out how to engage in a practice, and how to live like writers in a daily and sustaining way. The bracing thrill of sensing a real, live temperament / disposition / sensibility on the page is what I long for (and fall for!) as a reader, and so, as a mentor, I look forward to finding those moments in my students' work, studying them, marveling at them—and then, working to refine or reposition the whole, in whatever way the poem or essay requires, so that each piece is up to its best moments. I hope to remystify the process of writing rather than demystify it. What I mean is this: it's by engaging with practical, process-oriented habits, and learning techniques and formal gestures, that one becomes receptive enough to trust and catch the unexpected surprises that come along, and to allow mystery (call it the imagination if you like) to freely flourish. I believe in a workshop where risks of all kind are supported and strengthened."
Founding director. Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry.
Statement: "This is a small, very selective program for motivated and experienced adults. There are high standards, but no condescension. No enforcing an aesthetic as if it were the aesthetic. Instead, individual choices, individual challenges, individual achievement-all of which it's our job to support. As a writer, I know writing is a way of being. There's a time for community, and a time for solitude. When we're together, sparks will fly, and there will be high spirits as well as intelligent conversation with people who care about writing. (Bring your passion to residency.) When you're working at home, you will have new voices, new skills, and a new vision working for you. The process matters as much as a credential. The purpose? What you make it."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction and nonfiction.
Statement: "One day in college, my favorite teacher came to the limit of her patience with me. I had nearly suffocated a personal essay full of similes and metaphors and the word 'I.' She looked at my five drafts, handed them back and said, 'You can do better than this. Just tell the truth.' The simple rightness of this struck me like a blow to the head, and still does: it is a model of great teaching. Of course I still commit, on a daily basis, the sins of over-decorating, of willful obscurity and unmediated anger and blindness to irony, but I know, thanks to her, that there is another way. And I try to follow her example as a teacher, too. The Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg once said she wanted to be 'the recording angel' of her family. I like this idea, and even better, her example. Her sentences are laconic, unadorned, stripped down in language and tragic in historical context, but rich in compassion, humor, and irony. She regards her characters with an astonishing tenderness, from a little distance, as if she hovers just above the earth's surface, still part of its atmosphere, but not confined by its petty passions. Another great writer, Nadine Gordimer, says you must write as if you were already dead. I almost know what she means, and I will spend the rest of my life reaching to accomplish it, if only in a single sentence that bears witness to the beautiful failures we are bound, by our humanness, to create. I read for it, write toward it, and teach with it always in mind."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry and nonfiction.
Statement: "I want to read the poems, essays and stories that only you can write. I want to pay close attention to your words, your images, your lines and sentences so that we can narrow the gap between what you imagine and what's on the page. Together we'll come up with reading lists to support and challenge you. You're about to devote several years to honing your craft, to reading as a writer, to finding ways to make room for writing in your life. We're in this together, as writers and as readers. Writing well is an act of generosity. Writing well allows us to add our steps to a dance that began long before we were born and that will continue long after we're dust. Across cultures, across centuries, writing lets us in on the inside stories, the stories that make us most human."
Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction.
Statement: "My favorite moment is when a writer who's struggling with a piece or a direction hears the right question and then realizes what to do next. To me a workshop or mentorship doesn't involve 'teaching' or 'learning' so much as rediscovering what we already know but may have forgotten, overlooked, or masked. I think we're all apprentices to our work, and the heart of this relationship lies in the way we choose to be in the world. I want students to interrogate their experiences, trust their sensibilities, and open themselves to the possibilities revealed through their work and the work of others. I hope they'll cultivate the narrative expanse of the draft and the beautiful discipline of revision. I'm drawn by language yoked to purpose – language that rises from intonation and rhythm rather than words that rely on mere ornamentation. I believe that facts offer us some of the most imaginative opportunities. And is it so much to ask that all this thinking and exploring could be fun now and then?"


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Will some sue over God's command?
Some people say that "In Jesus' name" should never be said in public prayers. Even after reading John 3:15-17, do you still believe Jesus' name should be omitted by everyone? Then perhaps you should then read Philippians 2: 8-11. God commands we say in Jesus' name. Are you going to sue Him too?
Mayfield's tools make him ready
We have a unique chance next month to select someone for the House who brings three key tools to the job that the others simply don't have.
Scottie Mayfield has run a real business (not the photo-op kind) that employs hundreds of people and enjoys a reputation across the Southeast for excellent products. He knows firsthand the damage that out-of-control government spending and over-regulation can do to large and small businesses and their ability to expand and create new jobs.
His sales and marketing experience makes him uniquely qualified to be a strong recruiter for new businesses in the Third District. As a businessman, he can better relate to those site selection decision makers. We really need this skill in Washington now.
Scottie's stand on term limits, unlike the others, gives him the freedom to make the tough call, to do what is right for our district and the country while not being guided by what some re-election poll is saying.
So, I'm supporting Scottie because he'll stand up against Washington's power grab, he will be an effective business recruiter and he will put doing the right thing ahead of politics. Please join me.
Little will better serve Soddy-Daisy
Mike Little, in my opinion, is the most qualified man for judge of Soddy-Daisy. I got to know Mike and his family when his son, Josh, played basketball with my son Travis at Soddy-Daisy High School. Mike is a first-class family man who treats others with respect and at the same time conducts himself in such a way that you like him and respect him.
He has class, integrity and great moral values. Mike Little has also had experience, as a highly recognized lawyer, on at least one high-profile case, as a defense attorney in Chattanooga.
Mike lives in Soddy-Daisy. He is one of us. I have lived in Soddy-Daisy for 55 years, and my children were raised here.
I can't think of another man who would serve Soddy-Daisy citizens better as a judge than Mike Little.
STEVE LANGLEY, Soddy-Daisy
Schools will gain if Horn elected
My three children have each had Mrs. Donna Horn as their kindergarten teacher. I was just fortunate by luck of the draw for my firstborn daughter to get Mrs. Horn as her teacher. Since she had such a good year with Mrs. Horn, I requested that my middle child have her as well. And then it was time for my third child to enter kindergarten.
Way before then, I had realized that my children were extremely fortunate to have this teacher. Her integrity, work ethic, caring and genuine concern about quality education were and are foremost in her character. I realized that even though I am a man in my 30s, that I wanted to be like Mrs. Horn.
Through her inspiration and guidance, I am currently pursuing a kindergarten teaching degree while working full time as well. I am happy that Mrs. Horn's continued caring for education by pursuing the District 7 seat on the school board, but it was a sad day for the county when she retired. Please vote for her. She has incredible energy, drive and credibility. Hamilton County schools can only be improved by her presence on the board!
Answer 'yes' on Obama return
As the presidential election draws near, many Americans may be pondering whether to support President Barack Obama for a second term. The answer should be, yes! The issues such as equality/civil rights, peace and social justice, economic fairness/security, public infrastructure/transportation, affordable health care and education are good reasons to re-elect President Barack Obama.
As the president would say, "this is our moment, this is our time." I still believe that we have the right person to restore the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, "that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us we can't." I want all of America to know, Yes, we can! Vote in November to re-elect President Barack Obama.
JAMES WALTON, Member National Grassroots Fundraising Committee Obama-Biden, Hixson
Hoss would make great addition
I encourage Soddy-Daisy residents to vote for Bryan Hoss for Soddy-Daisy judge.
I have known Bryan for well over a decade and have seen his dedication in many areas -- as a volunteer for the Ronald McDonald House, to serving as a special judge for General Sessions Court, to handling just about any type of law in his firm.
I lived in Soddy-Daisy almost 50 years. My family was raised there, and my husband started his law- enforcement career there. Though I no longer reside in Soddy-Daisy, I care deeply about the city because my parents, a lot of my relatives, my extended family, and a lot of my closest friends live there. It is a city that is moving forward in leaps and bounds. Bryan Hoss would be an exceptional addition to this city with his experience and would remain unbiased as judge handling cases that come before him.
I urge you to vote for Bryan Hoss for Soddy-Daisy judge on Aug. 2.
Norton has proven he is right person
City Council meetings can be eye-opening. Attorneys will sometimes attend to advocate for clients. In September 2009, Mr. Gary Starnes argued a position before the City Council. In my opinion, he failed to argue his position logically and made loose accusations and charges.
Apparently the City Council chair thought so too, because the chair ruled Starnes out of order. Mr. Starnes was persistent in his comments, so much so that the chair pointedly asked Mr. Starnes to "sit down." (City Council minutes, Sept. 22, 2009, type "Gary Starnes").
My good friend, Judge Bob Moon, always referred to Sessions as the "People's Court." Judges settle disputes between people. We expect judges to conduct themselves in a civil manner and expect the same of attorneys who run for judgeships. We need a judge with "judicial temperament" who is fair and civil. Let's vote for Judge David Norton. He has proven himself to be the right person to replace Bob Moon as Sessions judge.
Wamp has passion to alter status quo
When I was 23, I set out to fulfill a dream of starting my own business. I wasn't naive to the fact it would take a great deal of hard work to accomplish my goal. I was often told I was too young and starting a business in a tough economy was a bad idea. Passion drove me. A fire was lit that wouldn't be put out. No one was going to work harder than me. Ten years later, my decision resulted in nine successful companies in Chattanooga with more than 400 employees and a business incubator that produces more companies.
One of those companies was started by Weston Wamp. I've known Weston for more than two years. I've worked beside him and been blown away by his maturity and knowledge. I've seen him close big deals. I've seen him command a room full of business owners.
When he told our team he was running for Congress, we knew nothing could stop him. He has the burning desire to be successful. He has the passion, energy and political acumen to change the status quo in Washington. No one will work harder than him.
Maybe taking a chance on a 25-year-old isn't such a bad idea?
TED ALLING, Lookout Mountain
JENNIFER BRADFORD, wrong, we are saying that public officials should not engage in sectarian prayers as a part of their public duty. They aren't paid to be religious ministers, they're paid to do other things. If their duties conflict, they don't get to make the rest of us bear the burden.
God's Commands, whatever you believe them to be, have no force of law. That's the point of much legislation. You seek to change that. I decline to accept your theocracy, and I am quite glad that the religious test suggested by your position is forbidden by law.
TED ALLING, except I've seen his campaign ads. They are such shameless emotional pandering that...no, I won't take a chance on that gamble at all.
Donnie Convey, Of course the City told Mr. Starnes to sit down, he was representing citizens fending off the City in an annexation case. I would be very interested to hear what hotly contested cases or issues your candidate has taken on. Answer. None.
If you never take a position, you never offend anyone, and color sheeple good temper.
We have the Hamilton County Commission, known for political expediency, nepotism, and backroom deals, trying to lay claim to Jesus as Hamilton County's Personal Savior with themselves as apostles. Forget the taxpayer's money that will be spent to defend their inability to separate religion from civil government. They know that Jesus would rather spend that money on grandstanding than the homeless, and needy. If the majority of voters liked Hitler the Holy Hamilton Commission would be swearing themselves in on copies of "Mein Kampf."
Jim Hammond, the High Christian Sheriff, while never missing an opportunity to praise Jesus, gives son Jimi a high paying job as webmaster (will Jimi get hazardous duty pay for fighting those Satanic porn sites?) while real deputies work long and dangerous hours for less pay. Nevermind that Sheriff Jim worked as second-in-command to HQ Evatt where gambling, liquor, and corruption ran rampant. But that's OK when you're a good Christian. God wants Sheriffs to do His will and pass the tax dollars on to his family.
June Griffin, Rhea County's own Fred Phelps, would return the country to Old Testament traditions such as stoning, flogging, and beating non-submissive wives with a stick. She makes the Taliban look like Sesame Street characters.
Greg Vital who touts himself as a "Man of Faith" has repeatedly lied about his education credentials for years, but lacks the guts to admit it. Only when he knew the story on his falsehoods was about to break he changed his story. It's laughable and his lies have made the news around the country. Want to buy a used car or development from "Slip and Slide" Vital? Don't worry though, he's a "Man of Faith."
Now Mike Huckabee is coming to town. Mike could out-Jesus Jesus. This neocon/Baptist preacher can't wait to start a war in Iran. I'm sure Mike will tell us about his faith and Chucky's love of God. Chuck will profess his faith if someone pulls his strings.
The Tea Party hates big government but loves big religion (if the religion is Bible literalism, Creationism, anti-science, and only if Jesus looks like a Nordic Aryan. Certainly can't have Jesus looking like a Near East Jew).
The Jim Bakkers, Jimmy Swaggart, the Oral Roberts family, the TBN and PTL have nothing on the religious hypocrites of the Tennessee Vally. They could come to Southeast Tennessee and learn how it's done with "Traditional Tennessee Values."
So let's hear it for Jesus. And after the worship service we can meet for cocktails, poker, and strategies for pushing Christianity down everyone's throat. Maybe we can off an atheist or two to show God's great love and get some votes. Ain't life grand in this Holy Land?
Jesus Christ>>>John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, "I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life..."
'Will some sue over God's command?'
1st Timothy 2:8- "I will therefore that men pray 'Every Where', lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting."
Saint Matthew 6:9- "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen."
Matthew 6:6
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Awesome post, Dayton and Happy! I'm amazed at the number of people around here and involved in this situation that simply cannot understand Separation of Church and State. No one is trying to say you can't pray in public, but a government official CANNOT get up in front of a government meeting and endorse any specific religion while "on the clock", per se. Got to love the Bible Belt.
In 1988 a local man found his preacher at the rural gambling house/gin mill/bordello and threaten to tell the community about the preacher's predilection for sin.
While the preacher claimed he was there paying tithes for Holy Water and fulfilling his missionary position to satisfy the Great Commission (Love Thy Neighbor), the preacher promptly hit man with the King James 1611 version of Holy Writ to smite Satan's tongue from wagging to the congregation.
That is where the term "Bible Belt" originated.
Preacher then pulled a knife and killed the fellow in Jesus' name and God's infinite love.
It is not true that Jimmy Swaggart was involved in this episode, contrary to vicious rumors about that legendary Man of God. Jimmy was out-of-town in New Orleans that weekend receiving the Gift of Tongues from an angel in the sanctuary at the Travel Inn.
Source: "Toupees, Cadillacs, and Greenbacks—Preaching the Southern Comfort Gospel"
Jesus Christ>>>John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, "I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life..."
Matthew 6-5 "And when thou prayest, 'thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are'..."
Jesus Christ>>>John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, "I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life..."
Saint Luke 9- 28 "And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, He took Peter and John and James, and went up 'into a mountain to pray'. 29 And 'as He prayed', the fashion of His countenance was altered, and His raiment was white and glistering."
Acts 1-13 "And 'when they' were come in, 'they went up' into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. 14 These all continued with one accord 'in prayer' and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brethren."
Acts 8- 14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received The Word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: 15 Who, when they were come down, 'prayed for them', that they might receive the Holy Ghost: 16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) 17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost."
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The steep-banked cauldron of the Stade de France holds fond memories for the England squad in Paris hoping to secure a second successive victory at the home of French rugby.
In comparison with many of their predecessors – Forwards Coach Graham Rowntree, for example, lost on every visit – the relative international inexperience of the majority of Stuart Lancaster's side means their only recollections are the fabulous 24-22 victory in 2012 or the creditable 12-10 reverse as France secured the 2010 Grand Slam.
Only eight of the match day 23 for tomorrow's latest edition of Le Crunch have represented England in Paris but speaking to some of those with experience of playing France in France, the respect for the nation and their rugby heritage flows like the noise that will be cascading down from the stands.
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Hooker Dylan Hartley, who played in the 2010 and 2012 matches, believes French public is what makes it a special place to go and play rugby.
"Whenever we go to France I always enjoy the national anthem, the French are so passionate in the way they sing it and almost create a cauldron atmosphere," he said, ahead of winning his 51st Test cap on Saturday.
"With the French – I've seen it this year in the Heineken Cup – if they get it emotionally right they can take their team to another level. They seem to play with another couple of men in their side and the crowd certainly plays a part in that."
Scrum half Danny Care, part of the side which could not prevent Marc Lièvremont's side from claiming a clean sweep of victories four years ago despite Ben Foden's "training ground move" opening try, concurs with Hartley.
He said: "It's an amazing atmosphere at Stade de France, the French crowd go mad for it, make a lot of noise and make it a great spectacle. It's an incredible experience when that first whistle goes off."
Two years later, tries from Manu Tuilagi, Ben Foden and Tom Croft sent the travelling fans into raptures that balmy evening as England edged past the experienced hosts and Hartley remembers the victory as a milestone for the young side.
"We'd only just come together as a squad and it was only a couple of games after Stuart had taken over," he added. "We had less than 100 caps on the field as a team and we hung in until the very end. I remember, at the last scrum, the ball being kicked out and everyone hugging each other on the bench. It was such a big result for us in terms of a young team playing against formidable, experienced opposition."
Owen Farrell, who kicked nine points and executed a shuddering hit on hulking France No.8 Imanol Harinordoquy as the clock ticked down, remembers the game against a "great rugby nation" as "extremely tough" and said travelling support buoyed the team throughout.
"Any sort of noise is always going to create an atmosphere but when it's for you in their own back garden it's pretty special," said the 22-year-old fly half. "You see the work that's gone in for these people to come over and support England."
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Course selection doesn't start till the 28th, but I'll be on vacation in China then, so I'd like to figure it all out beforehand.
According to the site, the Freshman science program is 30 credits. I'm planning to major in any of the biology-ish things (don't know yet), and my current hypothetical schedule goes like this:
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I'm not confident enough my physics/math skills to take the harder streams of physics/math, so my total credits only add up to 29. I want take an elective during first semester, but there are no electives that carry fewer than 3 credits, and apparently "taking 17 credits is not recommended". Why? Is this really too much work for most people?
I wanted to take French as an elective, but after thinking about this, I realized it would probably be a lot of work (there's a language lab with the course). But I've always promised myself I'd continue with French, so now I can't decide between that and
some other electives (i.e. philosophy, world religions, the art of listening).
If you've already completed your first year, what did you take, and what would you recommend I take? Can you recommend any easy electives? And if you're like me and have yet to start your first year, what are you planning on taking?
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I did my first year in life sciences at McGill last year. Your schedule right now is basically what everyone in life sciences usually takes. The 29 credit thing is annoying, as it means some point later on you will probably have to take an extra course, but just about every other life science student has the same problem. The only other major difference is some take MATH 139 (4 credits)in place of MATH 140(3 credits), but if you've taken high school calculus they don't usually let you take MATH 140. As for electives, I recommend Natural disasters (ATOC/EPSC 185), terrestrial planets, or the art of listening. I took ATOC 185 last year, and it was a very interesting class. Every few lectures you get to watch a documentary-type film, and the only course work is a midterm, final, and one research paper that they give you plenty of time to do. Provided you don't skip every class, study a fair amount for the midterm and final, and put some effort into the paper, you can get an A quite easily. They don't recommend taking a 5th course during 1st year because the courses have a fair amount of work, you will have 3 labs and a calculus tutorial each semester in addition to the lectures, so they probably dont want people to be overwhelmed in their first year.
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Wait, so you're able to take less than 30 credits? Do people usually take 29 credits instead of 30?
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You are definitely able to take 29 credits, seeing as that is what I currently have after completing first year. As fas as I know most life sciences students take 29 credits first year, unless they had MATH 139, because the schedule they recommend for everyone (which is your current schedule) is 29 credits. I think it is a bit ridiculous because it makes everyone start off 1 credit short, but that's the way McGill set it up.
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The Mac is back! No, not that one. The latest chapter in the British/American rock band's storied, tumultuous history is a greatest hits tour, coinciding with a new, reissued version of their most famous album Rumours. The tour was announced back in December, but with only east coast dates. But now we know that Fleetwood Mac--the current, Christine McVie-less roster of Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood-- is coming our way on May 23, at the Honda Center in Anaheim. They're also coming to LA's Staples Center on May 28. Classic rock lives!
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New Year Roll Call
Find a Conversation
|Mon, 12-31-2012 - 12:03pm
Are you working on a book / short story?
Have you made any resolutions about your writing?
I hope everyone is doing well and has a great New Year's eve and a better New Year!
|Mon, 12-31-2012 - 1:04pm
Name - Lucy
Are you working on a book / short story? Short stories... I've got a couple started that I need to focus on, now that the holidays are nearly over.
Have you made any resolutions about your writing? Yep... just made one in a previous post here! I've got to start sharing my fictional writings more, so I can improve my skills. That's just a scary step! LOL
Looking forward to growing more as a writer and a person in 2013! Happy New Year, everyone!
|Mon, 12-31-2012 - 2:55pm
Happy New Year, Southern, good luck with the stories. I know you can share them more often.
|Thu, 01-17-2013 - 4:43pm
Name- Shellie
Are you working on a book / short story? I'm currently working on a couple of short stories (fanfiction).
Have you made any resolutions about your writing? My resolution is to wrap up my fanfiction stories and focus on a story that has been perculating in the back of my mind for a while.
|Thu, 01-17-2013 - 7:16pm
Hi Shellie, it's good to see you. Keep us posted on the novel that is percolating.
Okay, now we all get to find out how little I know about publishing, what is "fanfiction"?
|Fri, 01-18-2013 - 2:22pm
The definition of fanfiction from Wikipedia sums it up pretty well:
Fan fiction (alternatively referred to as fanfiction, fanfic, FF, or fic) is a broadly-defined fan labor term for stories about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator. Works of fan fiction are rarely commissioned or authorized by the original work's owner, creator, or publisher; also, they are almost never professionally published. Because of this, many stories often contain a disclaimer stating that the creator of the work owns none of the characters. Fan fiction, therefore, is defined by being both related to its subject's canonical fictional universe and simultaneously existing outside the canon of that universe.[1] Most fan fiction writers assume that their work is read primarily by other fans, and therefore tend to presume that their readers have knowledge of the canon universe (created by a professional writer) in which their works are based.
As Lucy can tell you, I am a huge Harry Potter geek. So that's what fanfiction I have been writing. My stories are posted on HarryPotterFanFiction.com. Here is the link if you ever have some time to kill: http://www.harrypotterfanfiction.com/viewuser.php?showuid=135100
I need to go back and edit the first five or six chapters of A Time to Grieve, A Time to Heal. When I started that one it had been years since I had written anything besides a grocery list. So, lots of grammatical and puncuation errors that I need to fix.


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Group dinner in Albany/El Cerrito/Berkeley
I'm taking my restaurant crew out for a Holiday party. We are looking for a fun dinner/drinks kind of place between North Berkeley and Albany bowl. It will likely be a Saturday night in December. Most of the staff are college students and a few 30-something cooks. A full bar would be nice, but we could get by on a nice beer selection. Food budget not including drinks is about $20/person. Any cuisine, but no sushi. A family style, small plates kind of atmosphere seems fun. I was thinking little star on Solano Ave. Any other suggestions?
re: daveena
+1 on Nizza. make sure you reserve pretty quick, they're always busy.
T-Rex BBQ would work. Most entrees are under $20 and portions are big. Food is consisetetyl good. The bbq and sides are pretty conducive to family style sharing. Great bar selection. Not particularly vegetarian friendly.
We had a party of 30 plus at T-Rex last year. They created a long table upstairs. I'm not a fan of the food but the drink menu is extensive.
You might consider Six Degrees on Solano Ave. We've had groups of 15 or so. They have a nice happy hour drinks/eats menu and parking isn't too crazy. The price is definitely right--HH drinks are $5 with lots of small plates for $3-$6.
Nizza is my favorite but the biggest group I've done there is 10.
re: Aman M.
I actually think, personally, that Nizza has gone downhill a bit, but others still love it, and it's a very warm welcoming space, and I'm sure some of their items are still very good (granmere comes to mind - a very rich mac-n-cheese) and yummy coctails. pizza was very so-so.
Fonda is good, but to me a bit cold. and yes, i think it's pricey for the food.
I've only been to T-Rex once. Liked it, but don't know it well enough.
re: mariacarmen
Fonda is tough with a group of even 8 people. Noisy, hard to hear the convos. I find it expensive, too. That said, it can be a nice date night if you sit upstairs really close to each other and share bites. The staff is great at Fonda.
re: mariacarmen
NLB's pizza is some of the best anywhere...and I mean anywhere, including Italy. Perhaps there was some kind of kitchen malfunction on the night you went. We haven't been there in a few weeks but have been regulars for the past 3 years.
We love their atmosphere. The booths help create a very cozy European bistro ambiance. Their "Nissarde" cuisine is better than most of what we recently found in Nice.
re: chilihead2006
I've had NLB's pizza 2 or 3 times, and I've never liked it - i used to LOVE that restaurant. And I am still recommending it, for certain things. and as i suggested above, the atmosphere is wondeful - warm and cozy. but tried it right after they switched their menu, when they got their pizza oven, and then again a year later, and then, actually, twice in the last year. The last time, no one at our table liked our pizza. I like Pizzaiolo's, as a standard. I'm sorry to disagree further with you, but I didn't find pizza in Italy very good either (lived there for 5 months) - except one place, one time in Torino. Never made it to Napoli. I know, heresy.....
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re: mariacarmen
The oven has been there from day one and they always had a pizza or two on the menu. When the owner appeared as an expert on a History Channel show about pizza, they revised the menu to add a wider selection of pizzas, but the style of pizza never changed.
Pizzaiolo's more in the tender Neapolitan tradition and Nizza's in the crisper New York tradition.
re: Robert Lauriston
ok. i'd never ordered pizza from them before they expanded the menu.
re: Robert Lauriston
My only recent "negative" comment is that on a recent visit, things that came out of that oven weren't done as usual (esp. the pizza crust), making me think they were either taken out prematurely, or the oven wasn't hot enough. Otherwise, I haven't experienced any slippage.


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Kosher Sushi
Baginah Garden Cafe
74 Beit Lechem
Road, Jerusalem
Tel: 02-6720825
Kashrut Rabbanut Jerusalem Dairy
Sunday - Thursday 10:00am till 12:00 midnight. Friday till 4:30pm. Saturday
night till midnight. Closed Shabbat.
This write up
was submitted by Deborah Meghnagi (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Write up a restaurant and win a prize if it is published on eLuna.com.
See contest for details.
by: Annice G., Date: October 6, 1999. Description: My husband and I
lunched at this restaurant after reading about it on your web site.
We thoroughly enjoyed the meal, except at the end when a pesky bee decided
that she wanted the dregs of my salad. The review
by Deborah Meghnagi states that "portions are not particularly generous."
I have to disagree. My husband had the pumpkin soup and Parmesan salad,
and I had the garden salad, and the servings were very ample. We were
both too full for dessert. (Too bad, because the cakes looked yummy.)
Glancing at the other tables, large portions seemed to be the rule,
rather than the exception.
by: Charlie Kalech Date: July 2002. Description: Given the current "situation" in our country, I know that many of our
friends hesitate to go out. Cafe B'Gina offers a setting which takes
us away from the bustle and worries of the city and which also seems
to us to provide a secure dining atmosphere. Cafe B'Gina, as the review
on your site mentions, is set off of the street. To enter, you must
pass by a security guard who also acts as a doorman, opening the gate
for you. A fence surrounds the large premises and once you pass through
the gate, you walk down a few steps before you are in the large garden.
The building of the restaurant itself is set about 50 meters away from
the street so that you can sit in the garden and still be quite a way
away from the street with a gate and a guard between the passersby and
your serene surroundings. Cafe B'Gina provides a much appreciated oasis
from the city and from the "situation." It is a pleasure to spend a
relaxed morning, afternoon or evening here and to take a break from
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Aerosmith Hole In My Soul Lyrics
Last updated: 01/26/2013 11:54:59 AM
I'm down a one way street
With a one night stand
With a one track mind
Out in no man's land
The punishment sometimes
Don't seem to fit the crime
Yeah there's a hole in my soul
But one thing I've learned
For every love letter written
There's another one burned
So you tell me how it's gonna be this time
Is it over?
Is it over?
'Cause I'm blowin' out the flame
Take a walk outside your mind
Tell me how it feels to be
The one who turns
The knife inside of me
Take a look and you will find
There's nothing there, girl
Yeah I swear, I'm telling you, girl yeah 'cause
There's a Hole In My Soul
That's been killing me forever
It's a place where a garden never grows
There's a Hole In My Soul
Yeah, I should have known better
'Cause your love's like a thorn without a rose
Yeah, yeah
I'm as dry as a seven year drought
I got dust for tears
Yeah I'm all tapped out
Sometimes I feel broken and can't get fixed
I know there's been all kinds of shoes
Underneath your bed
Now I sleep with my boots on
But you're still in my head
And something tells me this time
I'm down to my last licks
'Cause if it's over
Then it's over
And it's driving me insane
Take a walk outside your mind
Tell me how it feels to be
The one who turns
The knife inside of me
Take a look and you will find
There's nothing there, girl, yeah, I swear
I'm telling you girl yeah 'cause
Yeah, is it over?
Yeah, it's over
And I'm blowing out the flame
Take a walk outside your mind
Tell me how it feels to be
The one who turns
The knife inside of me
Take a look and you will find
There's nothing there, girl, yeah, I swear
I'm telling you girl yeah 'cause
Oh, oh...
(Good night taj...good night Chelsie!)
A Song for Broken Hearts & Broken Dreams | Reviewer: Valkyrie | 1/26/13
I think this song resonates with anyone who has ever found and then lost someone. Because sometimes, everyone feels "broke and can't be fixed." I know that I had found *the one*, but it didn't work out. And now, my heart is "a place where a garden never grows," because I don't believe in love anymore for me.
In short, this song sums up my feelings, my love, and my life.
Montana, should you ever read this, I'm yours. Always will be.
I had forgotten about this song | Reviewer: Soulless | 3/8/12
I've always loved Aerosmith, and i had forgotten about this song until now. My almost five year girlfriend broke up with me a few months ago, and it didn't hit me until yesterday (I'm kind of slow hu?), because we weren't together anymore but we weren't actually appart... we still aren't, but we were talking about our weird relationship, and she told me that she thinks her ex was the perfect person for her... i felt my world crashed and all these thoughts rushed into my head I finally realized that for five years I was her consolation prize, she might have truely loved me... but she was always longing for someone else, i confirmed it when I found this ring with a note that this person gave to her years ago. She turned the knife inside of me... she finally hurt me, after many tries she finally did.
Thank u Aerosmith | Reviewer: Rocker chick | 8/5/11
And I also sorta feel as tho this song reflects me but in a diff way than most ppl I feel as tho every guy I meet wont come close to loveing me becuz of my freaken religon (no im not satainest) I feel lik ill b unwanted thru out my whole teen life just cuz of it! Im not asken fo a bf i just want my guy friends to look lik they think its posible fo some1 to lik me! anyway thank u Aerosmith! U guys keep me sain! I wish to DEATH I could meet yall!
Awesome song as is with all aerosmith songs | Reviewer: Rocker chick | 8/3/11
Couldnt liv without Aerosmith. Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton, and Joey Kramer plz just keep kicken our asses with yo freaken awesome rock! And who givs a damn if im 12!? I can rock to good music! Altho I wish I new another 12yr old thts an aero-freak. But o wel I luv yall and thts all tht maters!
there is no music that can describe a real pain of a break up | Reviewer: dave | 2/25/11
but this song comes real close to mine. i break up with my gf 2 weeks ago. i love her, i know she loves me. but i was cheating on her for a month. i disgusted myself i wanted to protect her from me and broke up with her. we have been together for 4 years. i couldnt tell her i cheated on her it would destroy her.she doesnt understand why i broke up. i love her but i have feelings for the other girl too. thats why i feel like i dont have a soul anymore and she has a big hole in her soul, i am the one that turns the knife. thats when i learned cheating is a knife with 2 points cuz i hurt myself too when i was hurting her! i forgot what love is and how it felt :( now its just residues and memories.
yeah | Reviewer: Tino | 3/23/10
Yeah, these guys know how to write and compose...
U listen to the music with ur ears, but u can hear with ur heart that there's really nothing fake in this,...
I'm so sorry , that there's not many bands nowadays doin' music so true and real like Aerosmith f.e.
so sad and just in love with it | Reviewer: rock-angel | 1/18/10
this is like the stroy of my life...i am in love with somebady but he rips me apart and it is like i have a hole in my soul to be true and his a aerosmith fan too he got me into them first place aswell i love him and aerosmith to bits he is my life chris purvis i hope u will see this and understand plzzzz i love u !!!!!
the soundtrack | Reviewer: Johannna | 10/13/09
this is one of those songs i hear and takes me to the moment i break up with him...and i cry as i should had cried that time just for thinking i could still fine without him...
i'm now with the kindest man i ever met...kinder than him...but i can't stop thinking on him...and he's the one who turns the knife inside of me
World's Hugest hole in soul | Reviewer: Gustavo | 10/7/09
I had a fg for more tham 1 and a half year .. we broke up like 6 months ago but I still love her and she does love me too, she calls me sometimes we talk some then she starts to cry and I do also, but we cant be together cuz shes got a new bf and she says she doesnt love hime like me that I the best of bf on the globe I cant take her out of my mind as I cant understand her! Why-th it has to be so tough to understand them? I so f sad she is as sad as me she feels the same but... I dedicate every word of this song to you karen, really miss n lof u babe
I Love Aerosmith No Matter What | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/30/09
REally, this song is SO sweet! I love Aerosmith. I'm 12, but Aerosmith rips my heart out. I went to a ocncert for my 12th birthday in Denver, CO, and I got seats in the 6th row!! I know Billie Perry's (Joe Perry's wife's) cousin. I love Aerosmith from the bottom of my heart, and can't live life without them. I LOVE all 5 of them (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer, and Brad Whitford!) Love love love love love them!
Hole in my soul | Reviewer: Kim | 8/23/09
i just get easily carried away by this Song as it reminds me of a girl whom i still Love so much but i wonder if she has any feelings for me...Whatever may be you are always loved....
KZ i believe that you will be mine someday
great song | Reviewer: FE | 8/12/09
Life is not a great story, life is hard. But there is love. And those people make us laught, make us cry. So that is all about. When I broke with my gf i felt so so sad, but time told me i was wrong. There is always a person for everybody of us, waiting around the corner. The only thing you have to do is to find her/him!
depressing... | Reviewer: erin | 6/21/09
i sit next to this guy in my 5th prd math class... we started talking and eventually he was the one reason i wanted to go to class. He had a gf but broke it off cuz he thought she was cheating on him. This was after i told him i like him... anywho i gave him time to get over it but by the time i wanted to ask him out he had another gf and they're still together. whenever i hear this song i always feel like crying. i am happy 4 him though. but whenever we talk it feels awkward for me, at least. Rio i don't know if i love you but i think about you all the time. i hope and pray for you to ask me out even when it'll never happen cuz you have melissa and i don't wanna be the other woman... i'm sorry for saying that. just let me know if theres any chance- even -100% that someday we might be together. please...
That is all i ask.
that was full great!! | Reviewer: berN | 5/1/09
everytime i see the guy in dis video i see my self to him but now i move on now and im happy to my new future girl thnx.. aerosmith more power to your band!!
with a hole in the soul | Reviewer: Kamen | 4/19/09
This song made me cry.I'm in love with a girl that has a boyfriend from the street she live.When I understood this... this is horrible.i was crying,and crying in more than half an hour.I have a picture of this girl right in front of me and when I listen to this song.... you know how i feel :( :( :( :(
PS. Magi,I will love you no matter what


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With a Visibly Smart Intel® Core™ i3 processor in a highly customizable package, the NUC is a breakthrough in compact but impactful computing. Drive two digital displays at once with dual HDMI. Get reliable connectivity through Gigabit LAN. Effortlessly move between applications with smart multitasking delivered by Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology.
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This unit seemed like a good deal until we had to buy $43 for RAM, $103 for Hard drive(120gb) and $140 for Windows OS. We had a power cord(that does not come either) So after $625 we're up and running(not counting install parts, OS time and labor). Mac mini is $599 ready to roll with 500gb drive. Have to weight that option before buying another. It is however a nice solid build and works well.
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