The periods just freeze me. Even without them- even without capitals I can't! Sometimes all it takes is a phrase- or a simple sight- the slightest trigger. I just need a simple little block buster- a little push. Once I get rolling it'll be a downhill coast. […]
Wrapped in the quiet of this gentle, May afternoon’s soaking shower- I found a moment of peace.
It was Jerry’s heart. It was Mickey’s liver. It was my Mom’s colon. You never know. It could be anything. Any time. It might be a stroke. It might be a heart attack. It might be some idiot speeding and tail-gating you on a highway. It might[…]
Memory washes over me… takes me back to a time when all my time was spent without the light… without the sun… Time spent close and tight and proudly in the rooms without windows. It’s not that I regret[…]
Clarity! Enunciation! Eloquence! Precision! These wielders of words hurling their feelings about fearlessly- without a net- without restraint- with only each other’s wits to keep them insolent- insistent- inspired- in adrenaline- soaked. Wordsmiths frenzied at their forges-[…]
She waved her hand over the top of my glass, as if to push the genie back in the bottle. We sat in the Sherlock Holmes Public House, a corny little pub in central London, not far from the Embankment. I looked down at the two ales. She looked up[…]
Today I saw Christmas… Everywhere I looked I saw the signs… But they were not Christmas. Today I saw the trappings, the trimmings of Christmas. It wasn’t there. It wasn’t in the lights. It wasn’t in the stores. It wasn’t in the signs. But today I[…]
Sister Sue spinning at her wedding! So alive! Alive as ever I should be, as alive as ever anyone should be. Spinning, spinning, spraying out joy, raining it all over all of us, all around her. Spinning, flooding the room and filling every heart within her glow with love. Wayne,[…]
Sweetest heart… gentlest soul… Your life has been of kindness and consideration… of joys, most simple… of time, frozen… frozen between childhood and the simplest truths… often, I am reminded of your ways and how completely you can be filled with happiness… I’ve been told[…]
“Daddy Dewey, Daddy Dewey!” they called, squealing out the thrill of his return after a long day. Perhaps they called him that because of all that he would “do”. Perhaps it was just one of those things started in a moment of kidding and laughter and never quite had a[…]