Category Archives: REALITY

Blue sky nice day turnaround an inch of snow upon the ground; New England. Born and bred here like the indecisive weather whether we should stay or go this weekend makes the difference like the snow. Our lives turn on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It seems sane to assume that one has eaten enough dark chocolate Hershey kisses when a tinfoil wrapper no longer covers the ball of those that have gone before. Continue reading →

Arizona, flowers bright and vivid blooming on short prickly trees that don’t need trimming.  No grass to cut, sand squishing in between your toes beachlike, but without an ocean rippling in to cool them.  Flat airy houses where eclectic doesn’t … Continue reading → Continue reading →

How sweet and kind; a young man just stopped in and brought me a CD of Eva Cassidy to thank me for rushing a frame job through he brought in yesterday for a Valentine’s Gift to his wife. There really … Continue reading → Continue reading →

"Young man rhythm’s got a hold on me too, I’ve got the rockin’ pneumonia and the boogie-woogie flu…"  (Johnny Rivers) Temp high.  Why?  The temperature’s up and I saw the eagle and the phone rang too.  Temporary, transitory, uncontrolled.  Independent … Continue reading → Continue reading →

And so I sit, poring over two legal contracts, ink spread blurry in their facsimile form, with magnifying glass in hand to help clarify the handwritten notes.  The last few times, the last few unsigned contracts, one alone held eighteen … Continue reading → Continue reading →

No novel reading yet today, the time spent in rearranging words for show and tell in resume format.  Put forth the best foot, ignoring steps so deeply in the past they should not be tracked in view of present employment … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Short; the snow seems deeper, as to a child and brighter, whiter than the aged eyes would have believed when purity seems manipulated memory.  Reality buried for a while beneath two feet of sparkling white deception, to make the world … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Living in the strictest of conditions known to us, I try to make him understand the doubling use of coffee (add one less scoop to that already used to use again; wash and reuse the filter once).  But a sudden … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Wow.  We may be pulling up stakes and retrench…in Arizona. Continue reading →

I don’t believe this; I can’t get a job and this is what a local tv news site presents: NEW BRITAIN — Police now say they know who was behind a hit and run that left a police officer in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I looked out the back door this morning, searched and searched and couldn’t find a single spot of snow.  But out in front, beneath the beach the town laid down beside the road, frozen remnants of December speckled by a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I search and search for the last sympathy card of three I do remember buying a month or more ago.  I cannot find it, and wonder if it too was sent and where.  And the first two, sent out together … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Two children on my mind:  one born on Monday, unheralded and unexpected, fighting for a life that reads as grim; the other, full of fifteen years who’s given up the fight and chooses death instead. So close I touch them, … Continue reading → Continue reading →