Sometimes the story is not important, only an image, and some random graffiti, and the happenstance of being in a certain place and time, stumbling across the echoes of others, a thread of connection, wispy, vague, hinting and nudging…
Note: I’m still in the midst of NaNoWriMo, as well as denial from the recent elections, so here’s another one from the archives… Casa Bonita was essentially a Mexican restaurant masquerading as a theme park. It was a cavernous place that seemed to go on for miles, […]
Editor’s Note: There are so many emotions in me right now about the election, but I can’t let myself rant just yet. Instead, while I process and search for signs of intelligent life in the universe, I’m sticking with re-posts about childhood memories, a time when our problems […]
Editor’s Note: What with NaNoWriMo and the Big Election Day that this is in America (fingers crossed that decency triumphs over hate), I don’t quite have time for a fresh post. Instead, here’s one from the archives, a childhood remembrance of simpler things. If you’re an American and […]
I kept telling myself all day that I wasn’t going to write about the shooting. It’s not that I didn’t care or I didn’t have anything to say, far from it. But I knew that if I entered the digital discussion, I would inevitably run into conservative whack-jobs […]
Note: I normally don’t re-post a previous entry on the same blog, but for some reason it just felt like time to dust this one off again… This is a poem I wrote for a special friend who had just lost her brother. These are my reactive […]
Note: In honor of Spirit Day, an anti-bullying campaign in support of LGBT youth, I dug out this piece that I scribbled back in 2009. The editor in me really wanted to clean this story up, as I usually do when I re-post something dusty, but in the […]
On the patio, Hemington, England, 9am, 22 May There’s a young lamb in the neighbor’s yard, bleating and prancing about, welcoming the day. Her name is Charlotte, a tribute to the recent addition to the royal lineage, courtesy of Prince William and Duchess Catherine. Apparently this is […]
So, dear readers, I just hit the big 5-0 a few days ago. I’ve been on the planet for half a century. Time flies. It doesn’t seem like it was all that long ago when I was a bright-eyed college student, eager to make my mark on […]
This is a poem I wrote for a special friend who had just lost her brother. These are my reactive thoughts to a specific relationship, but I think, I hope, that the words can provide at least a tiny bit of solace to all siblings who […]
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