by PatrickRamseyLPC | Aug 12, 2016 | #Inspire180, Prose
It was the best of flights, it was the worst of transitions. I’m not sure if everyone goes through this emotional experience when they leave the country, but when I was returning from Paris, and then when I was making sure I boarded the plane to return to the...
by PatrickRamseyLPC | Aug 8, 2016 | #Inspire180
I sit watching my youngest child, now eight years old, playing a game on his Xbox that he and his brother got a few years go, and the game displays a bizarre mix of Aladdin, Dory and Nemo all on the grass behind some castles. The game really shows my age...
by PatrickRamseyLPC | Aug 4, 2016 | #Inspire180, Prose
When I arrived at the airport and my ex and kids picked me up a couple of weeks ago, I got first-hand experience of what PokemonGo was like. It was requested that I make one stop at the airport and probably two or three other stops, including one at the Southwest...
by PatrickRamseyLPC | Aug 4, 2016 | Prose
Police sirens ring throughout Paris as I sit in shade by the Place of the Bastille at a busy intersection. The memorial of the French Revolution was not a far walk from Charlie Hebdo, and I cannot help but think of “the violence inherent in the system,”...
by PatrickRamseyLPC | Aug 4, 2016 | #Inspire180, Prose
Waking up in fresh air is not something I’ve done for a long time, at least in a house. Certainly not on a hotel. But where I’m staying is not like a hotel, rather more like what I’ve heard people describe a hostel to be like, complete with a...
