Darren Stansbury
Darren Stansbury is a native of San Antonio, an accomplished musician and an aspiring professional writer. He has a B.A. in communications from St. Mary's University of San Antonio, TX. He's also an acknowledged contributor to Gavin Edwards' book "When A Man Loves A Walnut," the third of three books compiling misheard song lyrics. In addition to freelance writing he plays keyboards for The Killing Floor, a band that plays blues, rock, Latin and whatever else it feels like playing and whom you can hear below.
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Articles by Darren Stansbury
August 13, 2009
Skin, n: 1 a (1): the integument of an animal (as a fur-bearing mammal or a bird) separated from the body usu. with its hair and feathers. 2 a: the external limiting tissue layer of an animal body esp. when forming a tough but flexible cover relatively impermeable from without while intact. [Merriam...
January 01, 2009
Are you tired of making New Year's resolutions only to break them before the end of January of the new year? Well, then you have two solutions. One is not to make New Year's resolutions at all, but that's for the especially weak-willed person. Another, even better, option is to make New Year's resol...
June 04, 2008
This is not about the words and actions of criminals and extremists. This is about everyday dumbness, dumbness you see everywhere. This is the dumbness of someone near you, maybe your own, including ...
Push shopping carts with no regard to who's around them.
Ignore arrows and proceed the wro...
February 18, 2008
"If Barack Obama wins I will flip out. I'll become a terrorist."
These words are from the unchecked mouth of one of my coworkers, a white woman, who obviously can be counted among the white people who will be furious if Obama wins, furious because of his race. The issue is certainly not his limite...
July 02, 2007
The hot-selling book and DVD, The Secret has directed much attention to metaphysics, particularly the New Thought ("Science of Mind") branch of metaphysics, which stresses The Mind as a powerful, divine creative force and agent of change. I have not read The Secret or seen the DVD, but I know from p...
June 03, 2007
Think you don't have anything to do? Think you have too much free time? Well, think again. You have plenty to do. When you need something to do, do one or more of the following to keep yourself occupied.
Count the paint bumps on your walls and ceilings.
Play Connect The Dots with the paint ...
April 02, 2007
Hello, Lady. Remember me? You snubbed me when I tried to make conversation with you yesterday. I'm the one you looked past, bared your nostrils to when we crossed paths yesterday. Yesterday you gave me no chance, but today I'm hearing or reading that you can't seem to find nice guys. It seems you ha...
August 16, 2006
I'm neither male nor female. I'm not of any race, ethnicity, nationality or any other group classification. I am me, infinitely.
Physically, I'm African-American, male, 5'6", 150 lbs and have slightly gapped front teeth, thick eyebrows, high-set narrow eyes with large eyelids, a large face with a...
January 18, 2006
Those who don't let racial or ethnic differences affect how they view and treat their fellow human beings can stand proud. They are an elite and enlightened minority in the United States who realize that no group on Earth is genetically predisposed to any attitude, belief, ability or lack thereof, b...
January 10, 2006
A question often asked to pick someone's brain is If You Could Have Any Power In The World What Would It Be? The answer to that question has varied over the years. I've listed the choices with their pros and cons below.
PERFORMING MITOSIS LIKE A GERM. Pros: Your copies could help you with chor...
September 25, 2005
In light of the destruction wrought by the Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita tag team, a Yahoo group member rhetorically asked in a group e-mail whether the world is coming to an end. I'm not sure I believe that current events signal that Armageddon is approaching. Evil and calamity have always e...
July 27, 2005
People who think they aren't creative are what you might call "creatively locked." They likely just haven’t dug far enough to find the treasures buried within. If being creative locked describes you, here are suggestions for unlocking your creativity, for uncorking your bottled up creativity.
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June 02, 2005
(This is another collection of my personal wisdom or, as I jokingly call it, wiz dumb. I called the previous collection "The View From My Window: What Life Has Taught Me." However, I've now chosen what I think is a better title.)
It's unhealthy and counterproductive to be too cynical. Like a scre...
May 31, 2005
Say "blog" and many probably think of a web journal, and wonder why the public would want to read a recount of a day in the boring life of some obscure person. They might say you can find much more engaging activities, such as watching screen savers. So, what is a "blog"?
The webopedia.com defini...
May 25, 2005
God knows I'm writing this. In fact, He knew I was going to write this before He created anything. As we know, God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent, which leads me to ask ...
As an omniscient being didn't He see that as the archangel Lucifer, Satan would lead a rebellion against Him? Why...
May 19, 2005
I'm a writer and musician whether I'm employed as either or not. So, creativity has special importance to me. I must have an outlet for it.
Few people are truly good or truly bad. Most of us are a blend of both good and bad. By "good" I mean people without malice or selfish motives.
People ...
March 19, 2005
The Nixon-era James Brown song "Funky President" reminds me of our current president. Although he campaigned as a "compassionate conservative" in 2000 George Bush and his cohorts in The Cabinet and Congress have been like a gasoline enema at a bonfire to minorities, the elderly, the disabled, the wo...