Day: May 11, 2025

I remember the first time I saw her
when she was just out of high school.
She was so beautiful and so charming
and so much fun.
She had a perfect body many women
would loved to have been blessed with.
Her father was a pharmacist.
Her family had more money than most.

About a year after I met her
her life began to go to pieces.
Too much alcohol and drugs.
Rumors of sexual promiscuity.
A drunken drug-induced threesome
with two guys when threesome were
still shameful and considered slutty.
And the two guys bragged about
“doing her,” so crass.
She let her once perfect body go
to waste, lost its sex appeal.

Because she had been adopted, I
wondered if it was a genetic thing.
Perhaps a mother with similar
behaviors that led to her mother
losing custody of her.
And I believe in the old saying that
sometimes the apple doesn’t fall
far from the tree.
But thank God not always.

Of course, she could have lost her
way for many other reasons

but whatever the reason she did,
I was saddened to see a woman who
had so many advantages fall into
such destructive circumstances.

And I hope somehow she eventually
rose out of them.

But I have an awful feeling that she
never did.

Bob Boyd

I’ve never been one to believe in demons.
I feel some religious sects that put too much
attention on them could conjure up fake
demons in people’s heads.

They may exist.
You read of exorcists claiming they do.
I choose to not believe in them.

Some demon believing Christians claim
spiritual experiences I’ve had via
Eastern spiritual practices could
open me up to them.

Nonsense, I say.

I’ve never had any encounters with anything
demonic.

And why put your mind on such negative
things?

That to me is opening yourself up to harmful
beliefs and possibly making yourself susceptible
to believing you’re experiencing demonic activity.

Of course, demons could exist, but not in
my world.

And no way will I conjure one up by filling my
world with unhealthy beliefs in them.

Bob Boyd

I used to read the news site MailonLine
and nearly every week I read of another
female teacher having sex with a student.

The numbers were shocking. In the
past you only read of male teachers acting
inappropriate with female students.

These female teachers were behaving
inappropriately even with grade school
students in some of the most disgusting
cases.

Some of these teachers were beautiful and
could easily have been with an actual man
instead of a teenager or a kid.

Some of these teachers were married, one
had a husband high up in government.

Some of these teachers had children, which
made me think how could you molest some
one else’s child, and where is the nurturing
mother in you?

In a few cases, the father of a student a teacher
had sex with acted like it was a great score
for the kid, as if the kid had bagged a trophy.

I’ve tried to figure out the reason for this rise
in teachers molesting students, even at the
risk of losing their teaching credentials, being
put on a sex offender list, and being imprisoned.

Some of the reasons I’ve thought of are:

We live in a more seuxally permissive society now.
People brag about having threesomes or living as
a throuple instead of a couple or how many people
they’ve had sex with. One woman boasted about
having sex with a thousand men in a day, as if that
were an applaudable accomplishment.

More women binge drink nowadays, often in
college, and I’ve read that too much drinking
affects women’s brains more than men’s with
long lasting negative effects.

Could that have something to do with their
inappropriate behavior with students, or do
they get drunk too much as teachers and
lose their morals in the haze of too much
drinking over a long period of time?

Given pornography is easily accessible now,
have they screwed up their minds from
watching too much porn and lost their
morals?

Whatever the reason for the rise of teachers
having sex with students, it’s a shame that
it has happened.

I remember when female teachers seemed like
paragons of virtue.

And you never heard of one acting inappropriate
with a student, though there probably were some
that did, but no way in the numbers
you read of today.

In a way, all these teachers having sex with
students is kind of like the sign of an erosion
of our society, and I hate it that so many teachers
have become that way now.

Bob Boyd

89-year-old man and his dog
killed on May 5th by a massive
black bear on his property
outside his camper 70 miles
south of Fort Myers, Florida.

His daughter witnessed the
murder. I can’t even begin
to imagine the horror.

It seems deadly bear attacks
are rare. Tragic and said
this elderly man had to be
the exception and go out of
this world in such an awful
way. Tragic and sad so many
people in this world die awfully.

It’s my belief this man is in a
better place now, but for any
of his loved ones remaining
there’s still the loss and when
I or anyone else says the
expression, I’m sure he’s in
a better place now, there are
no guarantees.

But I hope there is a guarantee,
and like in most of the NDE
reports about the afterlife, I
hope the better place they
see is real, and I hope that
elderly man is in it.

Bob Boyd