I have intense feelings and I don’t have any choice but to share them. That’s just the way I’m wired. I love powerfully. I hurt deeply. I experience joy with open exuberance.
I don’t hide my feelings well. If you’re paying any attention at all, you know where you stand with me, because I wear my heart on my sleeve.
But there are times — very rare times — when everything feels numb. When that happens, it means that some part of me — maybe a little part or maybe a big part — has finally died after an extended period of intense pain. It happens without warning, although it’s always predictable in retrospect.
I went numb today. It feels like walking in a driving rainstorm without an umbrella — and not caring what anybody else thinks.

Good riddance, UAB football: Taxes shouldn’t subsidize college sports
I’m all broken up about ‘draconian’ cuts hitting the federal government
Why have I kept dreaming about baby in need for last two weeks?
Do you obey petty rules? Or do you fight The Man in hopes of change?
Christmas tree ‘promotion fee’ is just another hidden tax on consumers
It took me years to feel the anger I’d repressed since childhood
Both sides of gun debate see what they want to see in D.C. shooting
We who believe life has meaning have lost war for modern culture