David Hojak family

  • Head Down to Hide Your Smile

    Head Down to Hide Your Smile

    Altogether, my two year run in Nevada, from northern to southern, was a blast throughout. Granted, I did take a 3-month “break” from residency within their hellacious atmosphere & terrain. Even then, the only “break” I got the entire time I was there came at the end of my stay…

  • 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…

  • If You Could See What I See Now

    If You Could See What I See Now

    Within days of my father “kicking the bucket,” I was off to a family friend’s house. There, I’d be given some “recovery time,” a period to grieve, while doing my best to stay focused on school. This ideology ended up working out as well, in the long-run, as a rebuilt…