Nic Smith
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Nic Smith
Don’t Be A Coward. Live Your Life.
I used to think there was virtue in ambition, but then, there’s a sort of weathering the years allow and you can’t notice until you stop and look at it.
13 C.S. Lewis Quotes On Loss, Life, And Love
CS Lewis, in addition to penning the Chronicles of Narnia series, was one of the most prolific Christian thinkers of the 20th century.
There’s A Full Moon In The Sky, But My Heart Is Completely Empty
Do you remember the honeymoon moon?
Increments Of Fear
Longevity and specificity. Do anything for long enough and the high points of the past fade into relative mediocrity.
This Would Sound Different If I Weren’t So Crazy About You
Your smile just feels too right.
Driving Fast In Slow Cars
Around the time my baby brother was born, so 1997 I guess, my dad brought home The Sub, our pet name for the ‘88 Chevrolet Suburban that instantly became neighborhood eye-sore and eventually became an odd sort of family heirloom.…
Catholic Guilt
The sisters did their part in reaffirming the mingling sense of reverence and fear the men of my family have always felt toward women, while laying deep the seeds of a crippling, life-long guilt. In other words, a proper Catholic education.
Another One Bites The Dust
His eyes left hers and worked their way down, and then up her body, not in appraisal, but admiration. His eyes stopped at the infinity sign tattooed above her right hip.
The Man In The Mirror
He seldom drank, but then heavily. He rarely loved, but then desperately. He never hoped, save once, foolishly.
Stories In The Sand
She said she read Shakespeare so he laughed and ran away. He had no time for dead poets or stale love and stuffy hearts.
The Fear of Living
It was the county championship track meet, and I watched from the stands, sidelined by a hospitalization from the previous summer that ultimately put an end to my competitive running career.