Munky MindJ. Parrish Lewis was born and raised in Maryland. In his youth there, he and his brother had many adventures in the dogwood forests near his home. His nostalgia for these adventures has strongly influenced his characters, their relationships, and their perspective on the world they inhabit. He moved to California’s coast to earn his degree in communications and now lives with his family in the San Joaquin Valley. Lewis is profoundly deaf and uses American Sign Language to communicate. He enjoys hazelnut coffee, captioned movies, and walking his dog.
I overdid it yesterday with pizza and I had soda for the first time in 9 weeks. It just about demolished my sleep. It’s as if my sleep was a gentle feather that should have lightly rested upon the bed, but NO! Along comes a hammer and smashes that poor little feather. Then comes a…
I celebrate geekiness, and that means Star Wars. I almost feel like it’s a requirement to be a Star Wars fan if you want to call yourself a geek. Everything else is optional. I said almost. Anyway, I’m old enough that I’ve seen all the movies in the theaters, when they came out. Supposedly I…
Have I shared this before? I don’t know. Though I’m profoundly deaf, the world is anything but silent to me. It used to be, once upon a time, but those days are long gone. Anything I see that I know makes a sound, my mind creates that sound for me. Whether it’s accurate or not…
I am reminded constantly of how it’s my thoughts that need changing as much as anything else, if not more. As I seek to find some kind of balance in what I’m doing for my health, I need to remember to change my way of thinking away from fear-based thoughts. Today I think about the…
In the last year, we’ve gotten used to being a family of 5. I’m not sure I’ve written anything at all about this, and I’m not really in the mood to delve into past posts to check what I’ve already shared. There is a story that is really long that I’ll save for another day,…
All aglow… A photo posted by J Parrish Lewis (@jparrishlewis) on Sep 7, 2015 at 8:11pm PDT Decided yesterday I wasn’t going to worry at all about anything on Sundays. Sundays are now my default vent days as far as my food choices go. This was convenient since we have church and that means potluck…
I spent the last 8 weeks, give a day or two, rebooting my food choices by going crazy strict about everything. I gave up sugar. I gave up flour. I gave up dairy. I started to reduce oil, but ended up having more. I went nuts with boredom. I started feeling overwhelmed with what felt…
Recently, I celebrated my 40th birthday. I hesitated to type “celebrated” there just for a moment, because there’s still this part of me that wants to be young again. But I went ahead and typed the word, because it was a good birthday and when the day arrived, it really did feel like a celebration.…
I kind of hate to use the word pet when I’m referring to our cats and our dog. The fish I’m ambivalent about, if I’m truly honest. People either believe that animals have souls or that they don’t. My perspective is that if they don’t, neither do we. Nothing’s going to convince me otherwise. And…
