“Constant Companion”
As I slowly wake from my sleep, a low rumble alerts my senses. The rumbling gains momentum as it nears, consumes all other sounds, and then passes into silence. Again and [...]
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TTMM Week In Review and Special Thank You
Oh, it’s Saturday and time for a week in review. It has been a while since I have had enough published to actually have a summary of all that you may have missed. We [...]
Love at First Sight
We go everywhere together. Since my life was blessed with her beside me, I wake up with her, go to work with her, spend my lunch enjoying her company and curl up for the last [...]
Lessons Learned (Or Not)
Kill me romantically Fill my soul with vomit Then ask me for a piece of gum Bitter and dumb You’re my sugarplum You’re awful, I love you! Ludo…Love Me Dead! [...]
The Age of Audio Books
There are many ways to get your reading fix throughout the day. In our modern age of technology, there is something to be said about the ability to listen to a book while [...]
Talking Heads Without A Voice
“Hanna Pitkin (1967) provides, perhaps, one of the most straightforward definitions: to represent is simply to “make present again.” On this definition, political [...]
I once was a writer.
It was back in the early 80’s when I first sat in front of a blue plastic Brother beginners typewriter. This machine was manual, plastic and could only type in capital [...]
Falls Apart
And the hell of it is what we are We finish and wish we could start again Our skin tears away As our memories fade with age And we don’t even know ’til it’s [...]
Where’s the Effort? A Trip to Higher Education
“you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a f*ckin education you coulda got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library”… Will from Good Will [...]
Peaceful Easy Feeling…
The worst is over now And we can breathe again I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away There’s so much left to learn And no one left to fight I wanna hold you [...]
Words on a Screen…
An online friend of mine was messaging me this morning. I started to type a reply to one of the messages and this is what came about. Before I hit the send, I read through it [...]
Where is my muse?
Where is the muse? The deity that inspires us to create and guides us to take up our art has not made a visit to me in what seems like and eternity. Her presence has not been [...]
Fresh Eyes…
“What are you doing, daddy?” comes the small voice belonging to my youngest that recently climbed up beside me in the bed. “I am reading news articles, [...]
Are you real?
But my dreams They aren’t as empty As my conscience seems to be The Who…Behind Blue Eyes It is becoming late in the night. I have found that it is easier to look [...]
The First Steps…
Well, I have been looking for something to talk about today. Just a moment in time to dumb some random thoughts. I first scan the internet for interesting tidbits of [...]
