Category Archives: Spirituality
Variations on the “Alpha Centauri Effect”
The “star” known most commonly as “Alpha Centauri” is the third brightest star in the night sky. Only it isn’t a star. It’s actually two stars in close proximity to one another. It is their distance from the earth, and their level of brightness that makes them appear to be one star when observed with …
From a Distance
I am sitting alone in my younger sisters house. Well, not alone. Her two cats and dog are with me somewhere. I am allergic too all three, so let’s go Claritin. She is off having her first born about 15 minutes from here. I got a call at about 8 this morning from mom saying …
Fighting for Joy
The opposite of joy would seem to be depression. And in certain metrics it would be so. But I have come to believe that just as often, the opposite of joy is cynicism. I have a healthy cynicism in regards to many things: People who are always happy. Love at first sight. Many social media …
Speak Up or Shut Up? How Do We Appreciate People?
There is such a fine line when it comes to people you value. You don’t want to gush about them very often, if at all, because that freaks people out. Yet at the same time if you come to value someone and keep it to yourself all of the time, they may never know, and …
And Ty Unglebower, as Himself
In my 11 years as a stage actor, I have played many roles. I have even played myself. Or, as the director of the production at the time put it, “an enhanced, stereotyped version of yourself.” So in one play I was, “Ty Unglebower”. But that was a play. A unique play under unique circumstances. …
Ty Unglebower 