Billy Manas

This is something we need to be aware of. There is nothing we, as humans, are turned on by more than what we can’t have.

The last year and a half, for me, has been umm…different. In one respect I have had the unparalleled good fortune of watching myself grow into the person I feel I have always been meant to be; manifesting the wildest…

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I am different than most people in many ways — I work as a truck driver among other union truck drivers and yet, I am also a writer, a singer, guitar player, and songwriter…

No matter who you are or where you’re from, as long as you are a human being, you have probably experienced the feeling of wanting to pull the covers back over your head when the alarm goes off.

I have an incredible amount of respect for the Gillette corporation—but I couldn’t help feeling, as long as they were being so altruistic

There are four keys to putting your life back together once you hit bottom. It is a universal truth and it works every single time if you take the opportunity to put it in place.

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I have been painfully documenting this minor cameo appearance by a very, shall we say, different woman who came into my life recently and I have to admit: I loved writing about it quite a…

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There is really nothing more disconcerting than that need we sometimes have as humans to look at things we shouldn’t be looking at. Our ex-girlfriend’s Facebook and Instagram where they are sexily kissing their new lover…

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I was somewhere in Westchester yesterday when I wound up getting lost. Getting lost in a tractor trailer is a unique experience because it’s usually difficult to pull into a gas station and ask…

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Yesterday, hours after writing a post called “Thanks For The Advice?”, an email came through my personal website from someone who felt like they needed to tell me that, after reading a few of…

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I have a serious love affair with writing. I use the word serious because, in addition to the sixty-hour work week I put in as a truck driver and the solo dad time every weekend…

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What might it be like to climb up a rainbow

To slide down from the sky to the bottom of the sea

To swim back to the surface on the tail of a dolphin

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