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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Robert Maniscalco | Feb 11, 2021 | CSA Advocacy, World View
I am sickened by these Republican senators, who will likely put their political miscalculations before country, dooming us to fascism, an escalating culture of violence, in the years to come. Why? Because they don’t want to tick off their base. But if they don’t nip...
