The other day, I was minding my own business—and I know that comes as a shock—when I got a phone call from a classmate gushing over the A she’d gotten for the semester in one of the classes we took together. Sure that I must have gotten an A+, she encouraged me to check my […]

Have you ever had something happen where you just had to take a step back and go hmmm? Every now and then, I wish I could be Piper on Charmed and freeze time so I could have a moment to think and then unfreeze it when I’m ready to handle whatever challenge I’m being presented […]

Today I pondered how accessible I wanted to be through this blog. This is mostly due to the type of updates and what-are-you-doing-now posts I see on other websites. Will I be that guy that writes, “I’m going to the bathroom” and then blog about how it went? Will I have an argument with my […]

Something that I recently learned is that people care. Correction, maybe I should say that it’s the depth at which people care which is new to me. I have had my own website for about three years now, www.mikeyllo.com, and even post some of my work on the usual suspects, MySpace and Facebook under the […]

As my first entry, I just want to post my plans for this blog. Actually, it’s like a project. I’m a writer and I love feedback, so I’ll be testing some things out on you guys. I’m currently working on a novel, but I also write short stories, poetry, articles, and things of that nature. […]