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About Me — Michael Hollifield

I am a simple person with a complicated psyche.

2 min readApr 16, 2021

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ILLUMINATION-Curated

Confessions of a Recovering School Bus Driver

Four reasons why I never want to drive a school bus again.

4 min readSep 13, 2022

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Confessions of a Recovering Racist

Alex Haley introduced me to racism.

7 min readMay 9, 2022

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The words: FIGHT RACISM, in all capital, red letters on a white brick wall.

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Better Advice

What I Learned From My Midlife Crisis

The view from the other side can help you too.

5 min readMay 18, 2021

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Have You Ever Wanted to Ask Bad Drivers These Questions

Do you have excrement where your brains should be

3 min readMar 2, 2024

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This image is the view from the passenger side of an older straight-drive vehicle. In the bottom left corner of the image, you can make out what could be a gear shift. You see what looks like a white male driver; his head is not visible, but his left arm rests on the door with the window down, and his right hand is on the steering wheel. He’s wearing a long-sleeved flannel shirt, and jeans. There is a small triangular window flipped out on the driver’s door. The vehicle’s interior is dark blue.

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ILLUMINATION

Unexpected Encore: The Unforeseen Journey from Trio Concert to Broadway Extravaganza

Sometimes there is great harmony in ignorance

3 min readJan 21, 2024

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This is a black and white street sign a the corner of Broadway and Wall Street in New York City.

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Koinonia

3 Spiritual Decisions to Help You Live a More Successful Life

Knowledge is good, but wisdom is better

5 min readFeb 28, 2023

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This is metal sign post with two directional arrows on it. On top is a blue one with the words, “This way” (pointing to the left), and below it is a red one with the words, “That way” (pointing toward the right). The background is sky blue with swishes coming down diagonally from top left to bottom right.

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The Brain is a Noodle

Creating Awful Sentences,

a poem and writing challenge accepted!

1 min readFeb 25, 2023

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There are three simple faces hand drawn on graph paper. The top one is a smiley face, the second is a straight face, and the third is a frowny face. Beside each face is a check box that a teacher might use in evaluating their students for the day. In this picture, the box beside the frowny face is checked.

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Use This Tool To Relieve Your Morning Emotional Constipation

Take a brain dump to de-clutter your mind

4 min readFeb 9, 2023

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A lady with long light colored hair is sitting at a marble top table. You can only see her body and arms, and she is wearing a sleeveless, dark outfit. Her arms are stretched onto the table. She is working on a silver laptop. To her left is a cup of coffee on a saucer (with a spoon also laying in the saucer), and on her right is a glass of orange juice with a white bendy straw.

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Confessions of a Recovering Only Child

Boredom creates five qualities that improve only children’s lives.

6 min readFeb 6, 2023

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It’s a sunny, hot summer day, and a bald man is sliding face-forward toward the camera on a homemade slip-n-slide in a beautiful, green field. He is in a green shirt and you can see his while legs and black shoes as he’s almost to the end of the watered down, blue tarp. To young men in are in the background watching him (with matching green shirts and dark shorts) waiting their turn to “slide.”

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Michael Hollifield

Michael Hollifield

Writer, speaker, passionate about encouraging humanity through personal experience.

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