Jamesbaruch Stories

How negative thoughts influence your health, relationships, and happiness. A short essay about the power of positive thinking, purposeful doing, and how you can feel bet...

A short writing about the hassle of travel.

They speak, we listen. Join me in exploring why so many people accept what others say as fact without asking critical questions.

A poem about Eating on Ambien

Increasingly, with a 24 hours news cycle, and citizen cell phone newscasters, our society is quick to make a judgement about the most serious of situations without any f...

A list of 25 observations for my wife on our 25th Anniversary.

What were the chances of randomly running into a distant relative when I traveled 4,000 miles away from home? For me... 100% This is a quick story about how small the w...

A poem about little league baseball.

A short story about one special Christmas away from home.

A poem written after the untimely loss of my Son's birth father and half brother.

A short poem about Starbucks.

Poem about the problems of a two party system.

An inspirational poem written durning the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals.

Travel to Bangkok alone was a peaceful experience. Why you should live your life and not depend on others when deciding to take adventures small and large.

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My whimsical take on gift cards, and why I think they are the worst gift to give.

It's a known fact that mai pen rai is one of the most-used responses in the Thai language. The three syllables roughly translate to "it's okay" or "don't...

A poem about drinking and gambling.

There are many problems in the world, but do they all need solving? And if so, are you responsible? This is a short essay on taking a different approach of trying to so...