Slice up a lemon and put it in your tea. Go ahead, do it, and see what happens. Try and take a sip without saying “ahh.” I’m telling you, it’s impossible. I’m not saying lemon is the greatest thing since sliced-other-things…. Read More ›
Creative Writing
Stream of Words
Stream of conscious. Streams are a conscious thought, now. I used to collect tadpoles with my brother. I used to pretend the lazy water turned into rapids and my tadpoles were saved from impending death-by-rock-and-water. Just maybe, I saved them…. Read More ›
In Memory of My Sister (Two Years)
The world’s greatest poet couldn’t tell you what the last two years meant to me. The best photographer couldn’t paint a picture to show you how that time lived through me. Even I, the person with the view and ear… Read More ›
What if?
Writers use prompts to rev up their arguably creative minds. I am partial to “What If?” (A. Bernays and P. Painter), at least when I am in the prompting mood. The prompts often remind me of childhood, when “what if?”… Read More ›
“The Road of Excess Leads to the Palace of Wisdom”
William Blake, the source of the title quote, was onto something about excess. But sometimes, I just don’t get it. My hotel room this week in the Bay Area was not exactly three star, yet it had a phone… Read More ›
Emotional Baggage
What is it about airplane movies that makes me just want to ball my eyes out? I can’t be alone here, but to me no matter how terrible the flick, the drama is thick enough to stow in an overhead… Read More ›
Life is a Holiday
Vacation. What does it mean to you? If you break it down, and no this is not a snooty Latin exercise (which we all know would be ‘acation-vay’), you have ‘vacate’ and ‘tion.’ Maybe ‘tion’ is pronounced ‘shun.’ Vacate and… Read More ›
Snow Way Out
Snow Way Out (photo:eD) Snow, snow, go away Please come back another day Maybe come back on Monday So I can say no to work that day I hummed this sweat little tune to myself on Saturday night. I’m now… Read More ›
Stranger than Fiction (duh na nuh nah nuh nah nuh nah)
Doesn’t happen every day, but it happens enough that we should have a plan. A plan to pick out certain qualities or make outlandish assumptions; an idea of what to look for just in case we find ourselves sitting opposite… Read More ›
What is Love?
We know what it is, though we may not know exactly where it starts and where, if at all, it ends. There have been countless books, movies with Matthew McConaughey, poems, and Hallmark cards that try to elicit the feeling or tell… Read More ›
eternal Domnation 