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Race Conscious

by robert maniscalco | Nov 16, 2021 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, World View

My son’s friend, Daniel, called me a racist the other day because I made a joke about immigration. I said something “clever” about Mexican warlords and immigrants. I corrected him condescendingly and said somewhat dismissively, “no, I’m...

Working Through Pain

by robert maniscalco | Sep 10, 2021 | CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, World View

A Brave Front Most people know me as a go getter, whatever that is. I’m a doer. I am always trying to make something happen, always hustling. But years of negative messaging from myself and others, in the form of CSA and verbal trauma, and the resulting anxiety...

Not Giving a F#ck

by robert maniscalco | May 30, 2021 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, World View

Reading “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” by Mark Manson, reinforced a few core principals for me The book read like a fully fleshed-out version of the RM Theory, a survival philosophy I devised in High School. As George Orwell said in 1984, “a...

Underbelly of Abuse

by robert maniscalco | Mar 23, 2021 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, World View

Chanel Miller, The Survivor My father didn’t want to ruin the reputation of the doctor at children’s hospital in Detroit who sexually assaulted me. Can you imagine the betrayal this young lady, Chanel Miller, Brock Tutner’s victim, felt at the hands of our...

LSD Research

by robert maniscalco | Mar 21, 2021 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, World View

The following is a letter to his son from a loving father, in hopes it might help others who are struggling with drugs.The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Dear Richard, I’ve done some research to see if any of your assertions about the positive...

My Pillow

by robert maniscalco | Mar 11, 2021 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, Random Favorites, World View

No, not that one! When I was a child I dreamt I ate a marshmallow and awoke to find my pillow missing. Gone! I vowed to never trust another pillow so completely as I did then, when I was but a foolish ten. I grew up so unruly, knowing I should never really rest my...

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