Things never, ever work out as you think they should. My fantasy train trip to Oregon has turned into a…
I attended a memorial service this past week. I am not a fan of memorial services, or anything related to…
Celebrations…. why do they exist? And why are they so important? I used to be a huge fan of holidays…
Getting Old? OH HELL NO All at once I discover that I have turned 75, three quarters of a century….I…
Life happens, I get that. Bumps in the road come along, I get that. Good things and good people come…
….not making me all that happy. As an older adult, how should summertime be categorized? Is it easy since there…
I have been asked why, oh why, have I published my writings. It is certainly not for monetary gain, public…
Anticipation always creeps up on me when least expected. Anticipation builds up like honey oozes out of the bottle. Anticipation…
Behold the red ripening apple! Once thought a forbidden fruit. An idea that is difficult to grapple, And may give…
Red is the color of my nose in winterRed is fire with my hunger to winYou cannot stop this outspoken…
My writings are just that…. moments in my life, ponderings about what all this means, or doesn’t, or, it could…
I have been blessed with a curiosity gene, sometimes I love it, and sometimes I just wish it would go…
“Mom, I want to be a soldier,” Danny said as he climbed from the sandbox. His miniature army, scattered…
Death...I feel like someone, or something has drifted away from me and into death. Such an all-encompassing miasma...feeling like I…
Let’s be honest, specifically me.I have not been a bad parent, a bad person, or sometimes a bad friend. I…
I am at the time in my life where I should be settled. I am supposed to have dug in…
Shouldn’t be too difficult one would think, or would one? The very word is indicative of a person unable to…
I want chocolate covered cherries, but I will get plain cherries with pits. I want my life to be my…
Darkness, but not darkness as you may know it and I have come to recognize it. Midnight, pitch, deep gloom,…
Fog creeping across the ground, wispily winding around the trees and through the shrubs. A cold shudder as it softly…