Category Archives: REALITY

Colder than it should be on a late June morning. Things to do are planned and halted by the sharp, cool beauty of the day. Stop and watch: The blues are bluer and white clouds billow out in brightness in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A very happy Father’s Day to all; fathers of children, fathers in spirit, fathers of ideas, fathers of science, religion, history and art, single moms, children who must be the caretakers of their parents, and anyone else who holds dear … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve said it here before, but the fact is that in our family, the women in particular are emotionally strongest when facing the emotionally most devastating. The normal, more trivial upsets in life take chips out, hurt, anger and annoy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

With a brief apology for yesterday’s language, both in my misuse of the word prosaic and my proper use of a four-letter word, I offer nothing other than honesty in feelings and admitting when I’m wrong, fiction where appropriate, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Yesterday was our fourteenth wedding anniversary. We celebrated with MacDonald’s rather than the planned lobster. But we’re both alive and okay. Continue reading →

I hate almost no one. I have disagreed with, temporarily disliked strongly–very strongly–but have never hated any person with any real passionate hatred in my life. There have been people who may have been mean, rude, unjust, or just plain … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The neighbors were having quite a row earlier this evening. I think I may have set it off by wandering too close to their yard when watering some parched petunias that couldn’t wait for “possible scattered thunderstorms” to possibly scatter … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Every time I sink my head in shame at losing what is left of any fight in me, I clearly see the ground and find that I’m still standing, and my eyes are far above it. Ever more nearsighted as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This is interesting, and certainly nothing I’m proud of, but I believe I scare people. My mood of late has undoubtedly been somber, beset by threatening clouds that have hung over my head for months and blocked the few healing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I am consciously focusing all my frustration, anger and feelings of despair upon this animal, the vole. The shotgunning of emotion was ineffective on every target at which I aimed. This will centralize it harmlessly, and thus diffuse it. My … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Standing outside just now, in a summer night’s dusk under a gathering storm of running clouds, I felt it creep back in. I wanted to howl with the wind. Continue reading →

I have rediscovered mountain climbing and it is quite fun. On Thursday I climbed the Food Pyramid and since I was missing my spiked shoes, slid off and grounded myself. I also climbed the sheer face of Reality Mountain when … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Am I really expected to honor my marriage vows with a man who won’t allow garbonzo beans in his salad? There must be a limit, no? Continue reading →