The Comet's Flame

Today, I was faced with the question “did you have a good summer?”  I guess my short answer is that “good” is not the first word that comes to mind when I look back over the events of the past few months. Have you ever seen the 2002 movie The Time Machine?  I found it [...]

I’m sad today. Sad because I feel like I’ve somehow lost most of my friends (or suddenly discovered that most of my friendships are totally one-sided). Why is it that when I’m happy and fun-loving, people are generally nice to me, but if I display any sign of uneasiness or hurt or sadness, people avoid [...]

I wrote this a couple of weeks ago in anticipation of the way I would feel at this moment — a tribute to today, and to countless Futures even darker than this one… I’m in outer space but I can’t see the stars Because of the reflections on my bedroom window. The flickering screen of [...]

Dude… I’m going to stop writing posts about having a good day. Because it never fails that the next day is terrible. “Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom.” – James 4:9 (NASV) “When I smile, tell me some bad news Before I laugh [...]

Over the past few months, I’ve been hit in the face with the truth of Proverbs 10:19 (especially in my online activities such as blogging, Facebook, and email) time and time again. When words are many, sin is not absent… I regret about 90% of what I have written/typed. Not because of the actual content [...]

You might be thinking “It’s been a long time since there’s been any introspective despair on this blog,” and you’d be absolutely correct — it has been way too long. Well, today is your lucky day, because that is about to change… I recently received my complete GRE scores in the mail, and although I [...]

This has been a day of despair and defeat. It may not have been the worst day of my life, but it sure was a strong contender for that title. However, I received some encouragement from an unexpected source… one of my college professors! As a passing remark in an email, he said that he [...]

Due to this blog’s standards of decency and propriety, I cannot say what I’m really thinking right now, so the following paragraph(s) will have to serve as an approximation… I’m sick of mean people. I’m sick of society showing favoritism to those mean people. I’m sick of getting trampled underfoot because I’m not mean enough. [...]

Sometimes I envy the mythical princess Sleeping Beauty. Admittedly, that probably sounds a bit odd and/or disturbing for a number of reasons, but you should know by now that all manner of weirdness is fair game when Jed speaks his mind. Sleeping Beauty’s “curse” seems like the ideal life to me… being placed in a [...]

Here I sit among the shattered remains of my life. I’ve gone from achieving some of the highest grades in the college of engineering to just barely scraping by with passing scores. I’ve gone from being a reasonably well-adjusted young man to feeling like a neurotic basket-case the majority of the time. For a while [...]