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The Keyboard Effect

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Social media is a great tool to use these days for so many different applications. With all of the free time that I have now, I find myself more and more absorbed into it. To be honest, if I didn’t have the blog then I think that I would probably delete my personal Facebook account. It just has it’s claws in me too deeply. The tricky thing about running a blog account is trying to maintain transparency. Is it deceiving if I only post my milestones and good events? What about the days that suck? The days that start and I instantly want to try again the next day? What about those days? The lenses of social media certainly make that pretty tough. Most of what you see on my Facebook and Instagram accounts are my personal leaps and bounds in my recovery process, pictures of my beautiful girlfriend Kass and also a plethora of pictures of my dog Kona. I’ll often post pictures of myself out with friends and family. But what I don’t post enough of, if ever, are the bad days... and believe me th...

The Freedom of the Open Road

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Driving Resources:  https://liferollson365.blogspot.com/p/sci-resources.html There’s nothing that quite compares to having one hand on the steering wheel and one hand out the window with the music blaring and a cool cross breeze flowing through a vehicle. Or weaving around backroads on your motorcycle taking in all of the sights and smells while twisting the throttle and hearing the roar of your exhaust pipes echo around. The road was really where I found myself. I spent countless hours cruising without a destination on my Harley or in my truck. I also prided myself in maintaining them both even though one was usually broken down at any given time. I considered myself a wanderer and an explorer. So you can imagine that the prospect of never operating a vehicle on my own again was a pretty hard blow.  I still remember my first time being in a vehicle after my injury. I was still in patient at the hospital and I was having some inflammation around one of my molars. That meant a ...