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I have been an amputee for about a year and a half now. Throughout this year and a half, I've met so many other amputees from all across this big planet and I've come to realize that the support from these amputees have been a heaven sent gift. It's like being apart of a huge family where everyone cares about your well being. We can all understand the ups and downs that comes with being an amputee. At first I was in that state of mind where I was asking myself, why did this happen to me. With th... read more..

I had just spend like an hour typing out this long message, and when I clicked "submit blog", it took me to my sign-on page, and I friggen' lost everything I typed!! How very frustrating this is...

My name's Scott Rogers, and I'm fortunate enough to reside in the beautiful, scenic Appalachian Mountains of rural East Tennessee. I'm 40 years old, very happily married to my bride of almost 19 years. We have 7 awesome children together, and life is never dull.

I became an amputee... read more..

Some Stones Hurt
I was ten years old
when I saw the Venus de Milo
posing on clean gray tile.
Shutter clicks were going off
like car alarms.
And I was ashamed of her stone.
Of the air where her arms
were destined to be.
I wondered why she had no scars.
If she hated the eyes --
their rabid dogs, their
pigeon-dropping cloying orbs.
I wanted to give her my clothes.
Pass her a bottle of glue.
“She’s broken,” I said to my aunt.
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Absence & Ache
If this were plain old age --
that ugly, stubborn customer
of all our whittled destinies --
perhaps I could sleep
after watching you struggle to walk.
No hands. No feet.
So cheerful as they bring you
legs of carbon, and plastic and screws. Your elbows swing like hangers without shirts
in a trailer shaken by storm.
The vacant air, your silhouette
of avid sadness lingering
with cobwebs on the graying walls. At twelve, you're far... read more..

Man this Hurricane has disrupted a lot Texas people. My home town of Galveston,Texas has been changed whole lot. My grand parents had some water damage to it, I really don't know what's next. My in-laws lost there convience store to water flooding,pretty bad situation. The seawall view is not the same,we lost a major landmark, The Balinese, been there for years. Hurricane Ike the Texas coast really hard.....!!!... read more..

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