Dave Hojak childhood

  • Time Can Hide The Years, Like We Were Never Here

    Time Can Hide The Years, Like We Were Never Here

    In the early 90’s, I’d heard Metallica was going to eventually tour with them (and they did, one year later). What I didn’t know was that Soundgarden was going to be opening to concert. Back then (1992), they hadn’t released Superunknown yet. Yet still, Chris Cornell was all f**king over…

  • Why Doesn’t Anyone Believe in Loneliness?

    Why Doesn’t Anyone Believe in Loneliness?

    Historically, they’ve said “home is where the heart is”… but when one of those “hearts” is so close to you, and it suddenly stops… in my case, it threw everything I’d ever been “taught” into question, so early on. In hindsight I look at these past instances experientially, considering only what I took from…

  • I’ve Kept the Movie Rolling, But the Story’s Getting Old Now

    I’ve Kept the Movie Rolling, But the Story’s Getting Old Now

    Whether you like it or not, circumstance is going to throw you curveballs. As life proceeds, those circumstances become more & more complicated. As you age, they become harder to adapt to & independently survive throughout. At a point, they become impossible to advance beyond, if even aided. Such is life, even…

  • I Will Make My Way Through One More Day in Hell

    I Will Make My Way Through One More Day in Hell

    As life’s curveballs came harder & faster throughout life’s progression, friends would line-up to assure me they’d “always be there.” …… and yet, come “D-Day,” phone lines sat silent, and parental influence was null & void entirely. Hell, if anything, Mom was as “suddenly stricken” by her husband “magically dropping dead” as everyone…

  • Time Ain’t Nothin’ If It Ain’t Fast

    Time Ain’t Nothin’ If It Ain’t Fast

    At the age of thirteen, I watched a parent die right in front of me. A decades later, I had no idea the other one would follow suit so brutally… or that I’d be wandering the world so vulnerably for as long, thereafter. Only recently has my condition seen any…