Adultery, Alcoholism......... Divorce

It's been a long time since I posted here, but I feel I need to restart Glen's Blog. As most of you know, I own a group blog called Tennesseefree.com, which features several writers from many different sides of the political spectrum. I feel though, that I need to convert this website into my personal blog, the one that exposes the true me.

The true me right now is going through a lot of pain. My wife has been separated from me for several months, claiming that she wants a divorce. But during that time, she has never filed. What she has done though, is manipulate me and break my heart. She is in her second affair. The first one was with a married man. The current one is with a man who is also married, but at least this guy is in the process of a divorce. She is also an alcoholic and an addict. Right now she is very sick in her apartment. I am almost positive that she is withdrawing from hydrocodone. I found an empty bottle in her apartment a week ago that belonged to the guy she is seeing. The whole thing breaks my heart.

I am really sad about what I am about to do to her, but I have no choice. I can not allow her to have custody of our son. This will crush her, but I have to do what I think is in the best interest of Frankie. I am meeting with a lawyer on Tuesday to discuss filing for divorce. This is the worst time ever. Please pray for me, for I feel that I am about to lose my mind.

BlueHost Is Crap

Maybe I am over-reacting. After all it is only $6.95 a month that I am paying these jokers. Right?

Not only has Tennesseefree.com been out for the last twenty hours, but I also have my three business blogs hosted by BlueHost. I am really disappointed with the fact that they keep lying and telling me that it will be two hours. I feel like I would have been smarter to just let Wordpress host my sites, or maybe even Blogger. In the three plus years that I have used Blogger, I can't ever remember being down for a whole day. I don't know. Maybe I should be more patient, but I have people emailing me asking if I have taken the site down. BlueHost is beginning to piss me off. The website will recover once they get everything straightened out, but when in the heck is that going to happen? If I go here and check the status at 8:30, it says ETA 2 hours. If I go back at 10:30, it says ETA 2 hours. Guess what it says at 12:30? What BS!

Anyway, I apologize for the site being down. Hopefully they will get the server fixed before long.

Today Is the Big Day

No I am not talking about that stupid primary election. Today is my son Frank's third birthday. It is also the fifth anniversary of my brother's death. My brother was also named Frank, as was my late father. I had made the decision to name my son after my dad and brother when we first found out the baby was going to be a boy. It's just so cool that he came into the world on the same day my brother left the world. I think about my brother a lot, and also my dad. I wish Frank could have known both of them. But he will someday.

25th Anniversary of Bear Bryant's Passing

It was 25 years ago today that Bear Bryant died. Having grown up in Alabama, I can't think of any historical figure more important than Coach Bryant. I was 13 years old when he died and I remember that time very well. He always said that if he ever quit coaching, he'd "croak in a month", and he did pass away a little over a month after his last game. I remember the outpouring of grief across the state. Cars were lined up and down the interstate and people were hanging over the overpasses to get one last glimpse of the legendary coach as the 300 car long procession made it's way from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham.

When I was a young boy, my walls were covered with Bear Bryant quotes like "If you believe in yourself, and have dedication and pride, and never quit, you can be a winner. The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards." Alabama's teams, fully integrated during the seventies, not only dominated the decade, but they played and won with class. Everybody loved the Bear, it seemed. He was truly a larger than life figure and he was ours.

He was a source of pride for a state that was dragged through the mud by Governor Wallace. Alabama had a low self-esteem due to the Civil Rights era and the much deserved negative coverage that it received during and after that time. But Bear Bryant and the Alabama football team gave the state something to be proud of. Of course the Bear was nothing like Governor Wallace, the other well known Alabamian. In order to push integration of the football team, he purposefully arranged a game between his all white Alabama team and an integrated USC team, knowing that he would lose, and lose he did. In front of the Bama crowd at Legion Field, running back Sam Cunningham and the Trojans ran all over the Tide. Assistant coach Jerry Claiborne would later say that "Sam Cunningham did more to integrate Alabama in 60 miniutes than Martin Luther King did in 20 years."

An integrated Alabama Crimson Tide was unstoppable in the seventies. They won three national championships and were in contention for one just about every year.

We still talk about Coach Bryant in Alabama, but can you blame us? He was truly the greatest.

Here is a great article from the Birmingham News about Coach Bryant.
More from the Tide Druid.
Also, be sure to read this.

Johnny and June at San Quentin

After watching a little bit of the Johnny Cash at San Quentin concert on TV a couple of weeks ago, I can't get his and June's version of Darling Companion out of my head. June Carter was such an attractive little firecracker. She never really was that pretty or glamorous, but she displayed a different kind of beauty. There was something about her smile and pep that just made her adorable. She wasn't even that good of a singer, but her style was so soulful and real. I just adore the lady and I understand why Johnny was drawn to her. If you want to know what real beauty is, just watch this video. It consists of her and Johnny singing "Jackson", as well as the folk tune "Darling Companion".

I really think it is cool that Johnny put on that concert for those prisoners. To see their faces, you could tell it meant a lot to them. When watching the video, look at the prisoners, and remember that each and everybody behind bars is a person, a person that was once a little baby. Remember that they also have mamas and daddies, brothers and sisters, wives and children. They also have a soul, and God loves them just as much as he does you or me. I am not saying we should set them free. No I believe in justice. But we should never forget those behind bars, and we should never pass judgment on anybody, but love and forgive all.

I Believe In Heaven

First off, I want to extend my condolences to the Hobbs family.

I also want to comment on this post, written by Bill before heading up to Philadelphia to spend time with his mother in her last days.

Bill wrote,

....after a five-year battle with breast cancer that for a few years she appeared to be winning, is now indeed closing in on victory. Not a medical victory over the cancer, which long ago metastasized to her brain and elsewhere, but the victory of passing on to the life that is beyond death.

What an awesome message. It reminded me of all of the loved ones I have lost over the years, and the song Victory in Jesus, one of my daddy's favorite hymns. A Christian funeral is a paradox of sorts. In spite of all of the weeping, there is still joy.

I believe in heaven. I believe in the existence of an afterlife. I believe that one day I will see my daddy and my brother again, and "what a day of rejoicing that will be".

Good Stuff Over At Tennesseefree.com. Check It Out.

What I've been writing about lately.

Here is a link to just a few of the 103 posts I have written at Tennesseefree.com over the last couple of weeks.

The Agnostic's Confessional,
A Post About Whether Or Not Reagan Was A Transformative Figure,
Principles Versus Pragmatism,
The Myth of a Bad Economy,
Martin Luther King Day and My Opposition To It,
The Regressive Redistribution Program Known as the Tennessee Lottery,
Real ID = Real BS, and
When Liberalism Seeks to Preserve the Status Quo.

Is Technorati Broken?

Just asking, because this blog went from a whole bunch of inbound links to zero. My new blog is showing a few, but not even close to all.

Surely Technorati must be messed up. Does anybody know of a better service I should be using?