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…

I have been blessed with a curiosity gene, sometimes I love it, and sometimes I just wish it would go…

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…

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…

I am awakened by someone in the room. This person has come to get me, take me away, and do…