I have made ambitious plans for 2022. Blogging, writing, photography, reading, exercise, weight loss, travel plans, concerts, museums,...

Sand in my Teeth The slightest specs of sand Ground down From seashells From coral From sea rocks From boulders Fly off her towel that...

Loose Ends- A Poem A heavy blanket spreads out on this bed that I made with you. I lay in this bed picking at threads. I watch them...

Nobody really needs to hear what a shit-show of a year it's been. And yet, now, while it continues to swirl around me, I've become...

We have a new government today. On November 3rd, 2020 Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris won the popular vote by more than 7 million votes,...

In early days, in March, his wife was sick. He’s smart, he’d be safe. But he wasn’t. She recovered; he died. It didn’t feel real. My...

My Dad died 23yrs ago. It’ll be 23yrs on August 27. For a moment I thought the anniversary was yesterday and somehow, the day had passed...

I have been articulating, in bits and pieces, over the last several weeks the anger and frustration I have felt as we move through the...

Nineteen days in the only out wet windows smeared with fear hungry friendly folk with burning fevers peeking in Outside means don a...

I was recently asked why do you always look angry? If you think this is an angry picture, you don’t want to see me mad (and, in my...

On black frigid dirty snow with the low, just on the 'half-way 'mark to being heavy' clouds that hide the sun from itself protect itself...

it's just timing for a short drive and shorter lines it's just breakfast and toe work and tile work it's just four eggs boiling for a...

This past week has been tough. Taz, my dog, developed the blahs late Sunday afternoon. He wasn’t sick, just blah, lying about, not...

Dear James Walters (and other smarmy men like him), I know so many men with good hearts and generous minds. But as Donny Osmond said, so...

On this frigid morning, I dreamt about you Hot juice made an attempt to sling you up Burnt, bitter tastes lingered on your tongue So you...

Yesterday started as any normal day; my daughter Jaime and I took the boys to school, as always. My grandson Ryan, ten, goes all day and...

We have a stand of trees on the west side of the house. For years, a turkey has lived there. She has her babies; they make turkey noises...

Writing for the “general public” becomes more difficult. The world is pressing in, from all directions. The world is going to hell, and...

According to the calendar, it’s a new year. I have trouble getting on board with that – who plans a beginning in the dead of winter? It’s...

The definition of impeachment is not the president is now out of office. According to the Oxford English Dictionary: 1. Call into...