Author Archives: ltrainlane

It’s been a minute. The winds of change…. Very sadly, Jenn and I have come to the end of our rainbow. I have nothing but love and the utmost respect for her, and my heart (as broken as it is) is full of gratitude for the 15 wonderful years that we had together. ❤️🌹 WithContinue reading “because it’s otto’s world, and we just happily live in it.”

Thank you, Randy Newman. This has been a fabulous week in the Land of La-La. As I work full-time remotely, my boss gave me the green light to work from the West Coast this week, so that I can see family and friends that I have not seen in a while. I’m truly enjoying myContinue reading “i love LA.”

At 1:27 this morning, I actually had a moment of hesitation about writing this blog post….I was fearful of how some of my White friends may be taken aback by what I need to write. Fortunately, this only made my desire to write this post that much stronger. I am an educated, intelligent Black man.Continue reading “where do you stand?”

Today I’m forcing myself to write. Been feeling a lot of different emotions over the past 24 hours, and my instinct is to just suppress them. Not today. This morning I downloaded and started using the Liven app, as this is designed to use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a way of working through trauma. It’sContinue reading “the hard look in the mirror.”

There are times when I write blog posts and struggle to find the words. There are other times where I can’t type fast enough because my thoughts are so incredibly vivid. This one will probably fall somewhere in the middle of the pack. I have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – I don’t “suffer” from it,Continue reading “ptsd ‘n me.”

This was my nickname in junior high. Unfortunately, a lot of pain came with this nickname. The year was 1982. I was twelve at the time, and it’s a year that I will never forget because of the trajectory of my life that year. But first, the nickname….my older brother Lee had the nickname “Boomer”Continue reading “the return of sugar cane lane.”

As I’m proofreading this for misteaks, it’s currently 4:59 am. (Yes, it was on purpose. 😉) Hello Spring! Oh, how I have missed thee! Winter has been a whiny little brat this season, dumping its remnants to be shoveled. But that’s for another day. Spring also means it’s baseball season….for the life of me, IContinue reading “april showers means it’s not snowing.”

We’ve come quite a ways from Up With People. Sunday’s Super Bowl seemed kinda “meh”, as far as the game and commercials are concerned. Fortunately the halftime show made things very interesting. I’ll fall on my sword – I admit that I had not known much about Kendrick Lamar’s music prior to Sunday. I knewContinue reading “thank you, kendrick.”