Sey Young: Evening at gym one step closer
"Every day is a winding road
Stories by Sey Young
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Sey Young: Cancer may win, but love prevails
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives." -- Samuel Johnson
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Sey Young: Joy can surprise in midst of grief
Glioblastoma stage 4. The family looked at each other in shock. The doctor kept talking, but few heard his words. The son looked at his mother with loving conc…
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Sey Young: Taking the road unexpected
"Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe."
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Sey Young: Winning the game of life
First Serve: My meteoric rise from child prodigy to budding adult superstar in the sports field began at the tender age of 9 one summer when my grandfather mad…
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Sey Young: Old friend deserves gratitude
"Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and …
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Sey Young: Simple moments can be revealing
For the heart, life is simple. It beats for as long as it can. Then it stops. -- Karl Ove Knausgaard
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Sey Young: You never know; a song might help
"And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye
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Sey Young: Drive who honked should try kindness
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
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Love pays ultimate sacrifice
"I light a candle in your name
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Sey Young: A moment can change a lifetime
"What people see you do may not be remembered; what they hear you say may be forgotten; but how they feel your intervention in their times of need will forever…
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Sey Young: Life goes on even during hard times
"I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
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Sey Young: Family tale tells one man's debacle
Four young men. A plan. One goal. After several months of erecting telephone poles in the sweltering heat of St. Petersburg, Fla., it was decided that the grou…
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If furniture could talk, should it?
Memories are what you no longer want to remember. -- Joan Didion
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David Glass was tough and smart
Go back to 1984. I am sitting in a chair just outside David Glass's office at the Walmart Home Office waiting to see him, and I am not happy. Although I didn't…
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Sey Young: In North Carolina, barbecue is paradise
Whenever I'm in North Carolina, my stomach tells me it's time for some barbecue -- specifically, some Eastern-style barbecue at Allen & Sons near Chapel Hi…
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Sey Young: Experiment proves good words travel
Go back 14 days. No stay-at-home holidays for this world explorer. With our children far-flung, my wife and I decide to make an odyssey of our own. Like my boy…
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Say Young: Take them out to eat, and choose moderation
Christmas makes everything twice as sad. -- Douglas Coupland
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Sey Young: Time isn't essential, but kindness is
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
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Sey Young: Getting married ruined Thanksgiving feast
Lack of civility at a family gathering only demonstrates that person's lack of theology and geometry.
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SEY YOUNG: Bad barbecue better than no barbecue
"Don't give me no broccoli
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Where y'all from?
Waddya mean I'm funny? You mean the way I talk?
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Sey Young: Does it matter to remember one tree?
"They paved paradise
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Memory might be faulty; worst job ever maybe never happened
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
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Sey Young: Don't judge a book by its cover
"I believe in an open mind. But not so open your brains fall out." -- Arthur Hays Suizberger
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Sey Young: Walk in the park makes good story
The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. -- Mark Twain
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On My Mind: Federer, Bukowski, and Me
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories--Alice Munro
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Sey Young: Memory can be a burden we must carry
"It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do."
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Dark deeds live on in memory
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. ... It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
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Change now, change never, more or less
"You'll never change, neither will I
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Anomaly does not stop walks
"Tis impossible to be sure of anything but Death and Taxes."
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Look back, look ahead, never forget
"Just east of Eden
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Revelation: Moderation can be fatal
"Crossin' the highway late last night
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Right? Wrong? Who knows?
"And no one exists alone;
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Firsts, lasts beckon
"I want to talk about me
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Associating is free fun at the store
Tell me what to what you pay attention, and I will tell you who you are. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The agony of defeat recalled
It was a monster. A huge, sprawling soul-searing beast. Sure, it was mostly green with a beatific creek running through the middle of it, ringed with an assort…
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College reveals so much
"Choose a major in college you love, and you'll never work a day in your life -- because that field probably isn't hiring."-- Attributed to Confucius or possib…
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Born to be 'sinastra' his excuse
Leftists always want to circle around subjects rather than addressing any subjects directly. Leftist reactions are always histrionic. -- Dave Sim
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All he did helped him live, thrive
"You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead."
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Seeing only darkness
One sunny fall afternoon -- Sept. 23, 1985 --39-year-old John Howard Rogers II walked out into his back yard in St. Petersburg, Fla., and shot himself in the h…
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NYE on the 'barbie'
My wife and I swayed a bit to the song "Cruise" by Florida Georgia Line but moved on after their next set of songs sounded strangely exactly like the last. App…
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Young boy sees the light
As a flame, Which oft they say, some Spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light.
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Barbarians at my door
We just want to stay home and have our own get-togethers at our safe house. You can't trust anyone, anywhere ...
