Author Archives: authorpaulhayden

I’ve been on this planet for over seventy years and have seen a great deal of things that were truly disturbing. I grew up in a household with an alcoholic and bigoted father who beat and berated his son and … Continue reading →

A great deal has changed since my last post in 2017. Our country has seen the changes in it’s leadership, there has been an insurrection and we have become more divided as a nation. this has spurred me to try … Continue reading →

At the time it seemed like a good thing to do. Our youngest daughter was attending college in NY at one of the first colleges to have Facebook and told us about it. It took me several years to jump … Continue reading →

I generally am one who rolls with the punches, and believe me I’ve taken more than a few, but for some reason Hurricane Irma got to me, I mean she really got to me. About a month before the hurricane … Continue reading →

I work at a surf shop and during the day we show surf video’s. There was one recently where they showed a guy who had lost a leg and who’s hip was badly deformed surfing on his one good knee. … Continue reading →

Hurricanes are an interesting phenomenon especially to a surfer. On the one hand the thought of one coming in ones direction can create a sense of excitement and on the other a sense of fear and angst. They can send … Continue reading →

I’m sure you’ve seen the TV ads for ancestry.com where the people talk about how they thought they were one nationality but after having their heritage researched came to find out they were really another one or two altogether. Watching … Continue reading →

Last night I once again watched the movie “Stranger Than Fiction”. The movie is really great and one I especially enjoy as a writer. In the movie, Harold Frick, played by Will Farrell, starts hearing a narrators voice in his … Continue reading →