When I was very young, someone prophesied over me: You shall be like a pillar, strong enough to support a building, and when the building shakes, even should other pillars weaken and break, you will remain strong enough to keep the structure stable. If the prophet could have […]
I got a pug at home who’s feeling lost because I’m out of town. Dogs are funny that way; you could put them on a cold planet in a distant galaxy, and as long as their person is with them, they’re okay. But confine them to a separate […]
I knew a woman once; Beatrice I think her name was. Her final moments so well encapsulated my observations of humankind, I continue to think of her years later. The question came from her soon-to-be widower, “Are you scared, dear?” Beatrice didn’t answer, lacking strength then to speak. […]
The first evidence of our pug’s hearing loss was her sudden disinterest in barking at the garbage man. We mistook it for age related apathy at the time, the same sort that overtakes older humans, should we live long enough. Then she stopped noticing when people walked into […]
“Vote Trump!” This from a middle-aged man in a Seahawks jersey, the same who moments earlier struck a boo-hoo symphony in the supermarket checkout line over the inflated cost of beer. The man’s directive is aimed at a pair of younger guys, twenty-somethings by the look of them, […]
The other night, I was driving home after three straight days of very little sleep and juggling the chaos from the Godzilla of all work weeks. As I turned on the road leading to my street, the oddest feeling came over me. The road suddenly did not feel […]
It didn’t strike me until Ms. Christmas said, “I’m going to pick up our one kid from school.”“Can you believe it?” she asked. “We only have one kid!”I’m getting a little slow with age. A few ticks of the clock went by before I caught her meaning. We […]
“You taught me the courage of stars before you left.How light carries on endlessly, even after death.”Saturn – Sleeping At Last We’ve been binging episodes of Friday Night Lights at my house. It’s an entertaining and addictive show that’s only nominally about football and much more about teen […]
The girl with the sticky fingers doesn’t know she holds a rare artifact beneath her thumb. Please don’t think she’s stupid for that. Her mother doesn’t know either. Neither would you, were it your hand holding me (or your jeans pocket, or change purse, or the little compartment […]
“Nobody wants to be anywhere. Nobody likes anything.”Jerry Seinfeld – 23 Hours To Kill If there’s a single statement which accurately describes the spirit of our age, these words from Seinfeld do as well as any. He finishes the thought by saying, “We’re cranky, we’re irritable, and we’re […]
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