I’m not the most techno-hip person on the planet. I mean, I am competent but I do have a natural learning on many aspects of “getting myself out there.” Conventional wisdom says to not show my growing pains – that’s not professional and it is un-attractive. But I know th… Read full post »

Yesterday I took myself down to a very small, very private beach down below Shilshole Bay. There were clouds but the sun glistening a line straight to me from the west. I situated myself in the shadow of a pole, a remnant of an old pier from very… Read full post »

Transformation

It is in the Absence      
since death came and liberated
that beautiful soul from that tired body      
and blessed him with the rest-in-peace.

She loved him with every breath and cell      … Read full post »

In September a dear friend posted on FB that she'd gotten away with her dogs and flip-flops, not knowing when she'd be able to get home again. In a weeks time she found out that her home of 20 years, and everything familiar to her was burned up in the fire. After a conversation wh… Read full post »

When I was little and the bigs were too busy or doing homework to play, I would play a modified form of one of our occasional group games. Our parents loved trains and would tell us stories about riding the train after the war, or back to Minnesota, or the first… Read full post »

A woman I’ve been reading about has been in and out of the hospital more times than I can remember since April. She is young and strong and has been struck with one unknown problem after another. On top of that her baby was taken by C-section, premature, and turned over… Read full post »

I first heard this amazing and profound Sondheim song when a friend introduced me to the record version of this musical with the incredible cast of Elizabeth Taylor and Diana Rigg, among others. 

The context of the song is the little deaths of self/hope/love in a relationship… Read full post »

History is made every day but it is very rare that we are aware, “this; this thing, this moment will live on in the hearts and minds of everyone for generations to come.” For some of us, too often these defining moments have been tragic and bloody moments. There has been… Read full post »

Exciting new discovery! Incomplete text of the Gospel of St Faux Pas

These texts were discovered moldering in an abandon storage space outside of Plainsville, MO. No one knows how they got there or where the missing texts might be. Being an average, ordinary American family, these notes were hand… Read full post »

I’ve been noticing a distinct spike in the free-floating fear and short-temperedness in the air lately. People are less patient on the roads and in conversation with strangers – yes, even less patient than usual.  I had stopped regular TV and cable a few months ago, but I’ve no… Read full post »

She looks down at the unmade bed, its collection of clothes to be folded or ironed and left over, mismatched socks from the drawer. She keeps hoping this time more of them will match up, but there are always these extras, just lying there splayed out in onesies. Like fragments of… Read full post »

On that day
They weren’t just stairs.
They were
The Path of Least Resistance
taken by humanity
fleeing the unthinkable. They were
      the next place to move through
      on the way to somewhere better.
      On that day… Read full post »

Drop down

from old world views

familial notions and standards

checks and balances

who’s right and who’s wrong

Let go

all that play by play in your head

so busy keeping score

can’t see what’s really going on

cataracts of judgement… Read full post »