From the category archives:

Who is Jon Ray?

Approaching your beliefs from a completely different perspective

February 21, 2010

I read books the same way that a dry sponge absorbs water. I like to read slowly, focusing on the meaning of each of the words and as I am educated or enlightened by those words I begin to swell and see the overflow of their meaning seep into my everyday life. Usually this means [...]

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Concerning Jon Ray’s behavior at home, at school & in his community

February 19, 2010

It is not easy to be my parents
During high school, I ran away from home constantly. I hitch-hiked to South Padre Island when I was sixteen. Hitch-hiked from Raleigh, North Carolina to Dallas, Texas and all around Colorado when I was seventeen. Was constantly in trouble at school for hilarious pranks, like passing out fake [...]

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Who benefits from a corporate dress code?

July 18, 2009

In the past, I’ve had my fair share of run ins with “dress code culture.” When I was a sophomore in high school, Duncanville High School, the school I was attending, implemented a dress code that had me expelled and sent to The Summit Education Center for delinquent youth on several occasions (I was in [...]

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Kissing to my right :/

June 13, 2009

I often envy ambidextrous people. I assume that these people, ripe with articulation from both sides of their body, are constantly writing, da Vinci-style, on both the right and left pages of their journal, simultaneously, then stepping up to the plate in their local softball game, hitting home runs from either side of the plate, [...]

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Newspaper Subscriptions and Flatulence

June 10, 2009

What are the rules for farting, in a relationship?
Relationships can be tricky things and most of the time, I find myself learning by doing (i.e., learning from my mistakes). Sure, I can run to a newsstand and pick up the latest men’s magazine in the hopes of catching an advice column as to what I’m [...]

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