Category Archives: REALITY

And pain.  Standing from seven a.m. until ten-thirty at night on cement.  Holes poked in fingers from wire-wrapping hangers.  Hands dried out from Windex, starting to crack.  Mind numb from guessing who’ll walk through the door first, most likely the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I sit and wait for the show to begin in the early morning theater of my dark garage.  Eyes flickering over the panoramic screen embedded in my side of the overhead doors.  No movement, a faint twittering of an early-rising … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My niece, Erica, came out of this one with a bad headache & bruises:

Cold, shivering; need dark chocolate to melt within my veins to soothe my heart.  Saturday’s Whitman’s gift is gone–was yesterday, evenly divided: two layers, two days. Twenty years of Christmases spent in coffee, cigarettes, cold and chocolate.  Running on caffeine … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It falls with a fury.  Nature a mad painter Pollock-like tossing, swirling white specks of paint to cover the green canvas of earth.  Leaving streaks of greys and blacks intercepting branches that curl and mean something.  Is it insistence of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Most people are one or the other–that is, if they are back sleepers to begin with. Tippers draw one knee up, poised and balanced, but without full consciousness to keep the muscles taut, the leg tips over to the side, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Advice on marriage, blunt and beautiful, from Buzzstuff. Continue reading →

With any luck I’ll remember to get back to this entry and delete it fore the dawn, but for now… I am literally seething.  I am taking shallow breaths lest I explode from allowing too much oxygen in to feed … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, Stats is over; sold my book back to the bookstore and received 60 dollars.  That’s about what I got on the final – 60.  Unless the venerable professor accepts my creative coin toss at 7 instead of 6, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The joy of the Christmas spirit is having my great-niece, Graham, a three-year old beautiful little girl who rarely sees me, come over and ask me to play with her.  Or our delightful little two-year-old Tatum, who somehow remembers the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, just a few finishing touches on my New Media paper yet to do.  I only wish I’d started a bit sooner; by now you’d think I would have learned that while you start with a theory, research is done … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The boulders roll in great thundering noise that warns and so you step aside, wipe your brow, and plant a garden where they fell.  But sand can sting, abrade and like a dozen small mosquito bites you’ll scratch until you … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve been putting this thought off for a while, losing its impact when away from the situation, but this morning it drifted back to me and got stuck behind my eyeballs, which is exactly where the problem originated from the … Continue reading → Continue reading →