Ode To An Old Friend
He was always happy and full of life and fearless and resilient... and he was never sick.
Ever.
Meaning & Purpose: Part I
"What we think is ours alone, what we do affects us all."
Despite them being inanimate objects, words have meaning, and how they...
Killing Your Children
The weapon of choice is not the problem. The problem is the decision to use a weapon to solve the problem.
A Bright New Star Shines In Heaven
On June 30th, 2019, after a mercifully-brief and terribly unforgiving illness, Denise passed away in a hospital bed somewhere in Brooklyn New York. I...
Forrest : A Horse That Wouldn’t Quit
If you have ever sat in front of your computer, mind racing at Mach speed, having an entire story in your head but finding...
I’ll See You After
She was born in mid-August of 2014. About five weeks later, my mother finally and mercifully succumbed to her years-long battle with Alzheimer's. Several...
Meaning & Purpose: Part II
I am going to whistle past the graveyard of the current socio-cultural and political circular firing squads currently gunning down innocent civilians on city...
The Bittersweetness Of ‘Granding’
I remember enough pieces of my childhood to appreciate, in hindsight, that I must have been an incredible pain in the ass. There were...
A Necessarily – Amiss Christmas Missive
This year... 2023... The world is in an especially troubled place.
The COVID-19 pandemic, and associated worldwide hysteria, has finally receded, more or less,...
Once The Seeds Sprout , The Teacher Becomes The Taught
This story begins in late October 1999. If it were a movie, the opening scene would be me driving a really shitty car, ...