A.J. Drew’s Different Thinking

Never give up.
Never surrender.
Retreat only to flank.

In 2006, after authoring 8 books, I survived a moderate traumatic brain injury. My career was gone. Over about two decades, my life was gone. Then I lost my legs. I feel I have emerged from 20 years of flanking and it is time to get back to attacking life. But this time, I am coming at it from behind. I’ve become sneaky like that.


Latest Posts and Projects

  • What is a friend?
    I think I might have a friend that I often see occasionally in person. As a near complete shut in, this is a fairly unusual thing. I keep in touch with friends on line, but in person not so much. Every human being in my face to face life is paid to ...
  • Confronting mortality while measuring urine.
    01/29/2026 – Just back from new pain shrink. Asa teen I read the book on which the 1976 movie Logan’s Run was based. Same general plot. You turn a certain age and they kill you. It was population control. You can run, but they find you and kill you. In the book, its a pleasant ...
  • Monsters are good at hiding.
    I once knew a male and female couple. For my tastes, he was a bit too literal when it comes to scripture. But no serious warning signs. Both seemed like fine people. They came with a great back story. As I remember, she left an abusive relationship with with prepubescent daughter. ...
  • How We End
    Pandemic means global. Not everyone contracted covid, but it is still spreading. Eventually, almost everyone will have had it. Lets round up to everyone. To a near medical certainty, long covid can cause frontal lobe damage. Some studies indicate it is progressive.Does the world seem a bit nuttier than normal?Do people seem a bit meaner ...
  • Do Psychotics Know they are Psychotic?
    Q: Do I believe in demons?A: Absolutely. Addiction is real. Poverty is real. Hunger is real. The Roman Catholic Church maintains some of the highest standards of education for its clergy. You do not simply respond to an advertisement in the back of a magazine. To become a Roman Catholic priest, ...
  • How the left helped end birth right citizenship
    When Trump 1 ordered the ATF to treat the bump stock as a machine gun, the left cheered.When Biden’s ATF decided the Forced Reset Trigger (FRT), the left cheered. The president of the United States and the ATF executive branch. Per my Schoolhouse Rocks education in constitutional law, the executive branch does not write our ...
  • Hazzah for the shitter
    In one of my Viking groups, someone posted the typical I am Viking poser image. I replied: “Spikey leather and eye liner are not a Viking’s tells. His scars and beating heart are. So stop posting pictures of you playing with your nipples.” I love trashing on the Billy Bad Ass folk who think they are Vikings. ...
  • The serenity of dropping your cocks and grabbing your socks
    The cleaning person just left. She has been in my apartment the better part of two days. The VA is sending me a personal aid for nine ours a week. I met with the provider’s scout. Tomorrow I meet the actual aid. The scout mentioned his surprise that a double ...
  • Key Chain – Black Walnut
    While living in VA transitional housing, I found a cache of black walnut shells. They were under a tree close to a food pantry in the same complex. I remembered where that tree was. After about 7 months of communal living, my caseworker found a wheelchair-accessible apartment. Lucky thing too because ...
  • The Problem with Team Spirit
    Team spirit is why we are driven to see only black and white. I love a football game when my first wife and I choose opposite sides. She graduated law school from the Ohio State University, so she cheers Ohio State. I enjoy the bickering, so I root for anyone else. ...