life was simple.

i wake up later than everyone because i know the early  doesn't really catch, so i lie around and think about things.

i think about what i see when i study that and…

There's a deep dark secret in the South that has to do with Southern men and I think extended sunshine might have a lot to do with it.

The North seems to carry the jaundiced Germanic eye…

“I’d sure like that Pope job, man.  I wonder how fast do ya think the popemobile goes?  Do ya think they might check out my browser history? Ya know, some of the guys at work said the Pope…

Once upon a time there was a Trailer Park Pee-Wee with dreams of more.

The wise ones gave his dreams a name, called them Plan Aze, said they were…

At sea, out of sight of land, in a storm, in a submarine, on the surface, at night, pitching and rolling, half the crew is seasick and the other half is in the rack.

The officer of the deck…

It’s a family thing, this ebb and flow, this cycle of darkness that debilitates and puts us out of commission for a spell.

We sleep, we cry, we drink, we take little white…

Under the bridge it was cool and the earth was packed hard and was always in shadow where no flowers or stinging weeds could grow. The water would reflect the eerie wiggling light of the sun on…

1.) Take a walk, observe the flowers, those that thrive, those that are dying, wilting, falling to the ground without a sound, a death unnoticed, uncelebrated, except by you, dear…

Like a wallet lifted from a unsupecting pocket, their kid could disappear on family outings--vanish right from under their eyes.   After it happened a few times, they began to wonder if he was…

He lifts his shirt and it is first quarter, half, third quarter, and then full, on the horizon - his belly is as big as the fucking moon,

and it is shining there,

and in order to not…

It was a big jug like hand hold that I clung to as if it was the only thing between me and bowels of hell, which of…

Within the great epic we share, my small chapter has ended.

The final word is love.

A voice sings Na Laetha Geal M'oige, a sound soft as white plumes gathering lost…

The back yard of the 1910 Victorian home consisted of a treacherously cracked composite stone and concrete walkway dividing two 12x24 rectangles. One side was grass and the other was a garden in…

Bernard Gensle's bespectacled eyes were like brown M&Ms set into a large head with a big face with big features: half-cookie ears, curved knob of a nose, broad mouth and engorged…

I read a blog titled "It's Only a Date," and thought, 'Shouldn't it be called an audition?' because audition just seems better fit, more accurate to me.



So you have an…

In his wheelchair, Davy sat in the darkened 6-man bay, his mind swirling in reflection from the 6th floor of Letterman Army Medical Center at the Presidio, staring over the runways at Crissy Army…