David R Hojak

  • Father, He Enjoyed Collisions… Others Walked Away

    Father, He Enjoyed Collisions… Others Walked Away

    From an early age, I was told of what the “better half” of my family… the more “well-behaved” side of it…… had occupied their time with. Once others in the family became more conscious of choices my parents were making… invites to functions began to come further & fewer between.

  • 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…

  • Born Without a Friend, Bound to Die Alone

    Born Without a Friend, Bound to Die Alone

    It literally was that easy. She had the choice to claim ignorance, come up with a “story,” then leave me in her apartment…… with my own risk of dying there alone. So much more simple than doing it humanely. Post-first wife, contacts came further and fewer between…