david hojak growing up

  • 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…

  • Toll Due…… Bad Dream, Come True

    Toll Due…… Bad Dream, Come True

    As a child, I’d often think about good times I’d had in hindsight. and recall exactly what about them was good. So many of my days would end with nights where I laid and reflected… why did my day go that way? What did I do? Did I do anything…

  • How Would I Know That This Could Be My Fate?

    How Would I Know That This Could Be My Fate?

    During my youth, realizations that my life was more complicated than that of others came quickly. It wasn’t long before I realized that my own parents stayed up way too late…

  • Nothing’s Gonna Pinch This Nerve of Mine

    Nothing’s Gonna Pinch This Nerve of Mine

    Few will ever have to see their own name on a headstone while alive… least of all, at such a young age. Imagine that visual, embedded in your mind & doomed to haunt your most subconscious thoughts, so early in life. Some will never know a fraction of that psychological hardship, and God bless…

  • Follow Me Into the Desert, as Desperate as You Are

    Follow Me Into the Desert, as Desperate as You Are

    Endurance of the elements will teach you a lot about your own fortitude. Lessons about your biological physicality, paired up with with realizations about limitations of your psychology, become painfully, yet so quickly obvious. Nothing will break both points to you as brutally as suddenly being thrust into sub-zero degree…