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What’s Old is New Again
Have you noticed how things come around again, and again, and again? There really is nothing new under the sun, and yet we treat the next “new” trend like it’s god appearing for the very first time on...
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Breathe Again
I died again last night A guttural exhalation that scattered stars Cozied up in my trestle bed Where you used to lie And we would sleep in the spoon fashion Breathe in, breathe out Dreaming of love’s...
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@ The Library
As I sit here I am inundated with inane conversations from every side. And it’s the one time I can honestly feel invisible. As long as I keep my head down, and as long as I’m looking at my phone while...
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Daily Prompt: Déjà Vu
You know that feeling you get, when you know you’ve done all this before, even though it’s not documented anywhere, and others will call you crazy if you say it aloud? But you know it happened, or at...
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Paper Bag Man
You never want to be that guy. You know, the guy you see stumbling across the alleyway on Saturday mornings, paper bag tucked under his left arm and a bleary smile on his face. His face is...
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Special Moments
Some of our most special, most profound moments happen when only we can remember them as such after the fact, in the telling. As I think back over my life to this point, this rings true again and...
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The Learning Curve: All in the Family
The Easter egg hunt still rages in the background as I write this post, with my seven-year old daughter and my 17-year old nephew battling it out for supremacy. They each have found 25 eggs, and there...
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Now You See It…
I saw a Christmas tree that had been left on the side of the road today, and I wondered how long it had been sitting there. Perhaps it had been covered over by several snowstorms, then unearthed and...
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From the Vault: Alone (from 2/11/09)
I stoop to pick up my slippers from the now-faded carpet, worn down from my constant traversing back and forth, from the many miles I’ve walked to find my home when it was here all alone. I am treading...
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Follow That Guy!
Isn’t it funny how in so many TV shows, when the main character wants to chase a suspicious individual in a cab, the cabbie never wonders what’s going on? Just tip the guy a hundred bucks and he asks...
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Blank Stare
“She doesn’t remember me,” I thought after I had shouted out her name so that everyone near and far could see how happy I was to once again be in her presence. My face slowly fell, like the bath...
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The de Lima Syndrome
There he was, leading what was unarguably the biggest race of his career when the unexpected happened. I remember watching it live as it unfolded in real time and just being stunned as Vanderlei de...
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Water Cooler Musings: On Procrastination
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” This was so eloquently spoken by Don Marquis, and it rings true. There is just something so magical about being able to manipulate time for...
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The Tale of 4 Rings
No, I don’t have one for each finger on my left hand (thumb excluded — is it really a finger anyway?), but this story is about 4 rings and what they meant/mean to me. In order to give the story its...
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Along This Cobbled Road
We often find ourselves growing up without a compass, a directional reading, an internal GPS for where our lives should end up. And by “growing up,” I just mean the process of getting older. We all do...
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The Masks We Wear
The face we show the world depends on who is part of our own personal world at the moment. Do you ever wonder how the same person can be described as introverted and shy by one person, and at the same...
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The Mechanic Street Chase
No one would ever confuse me with a great outdoorsman like Paul Bunyan. For starters, I’m hardly ever outdoors, except for getting in and out of my car, and in and out of buildings. I used to get...
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The Wake-Up Call
“This is your wake-up call. You’re gonna miss it all.” – Phil Collins Often in life, people have what is considered a wake-up call, something that shifts their line of thinking, even though that line...
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The Names We Bear
Remember the last time someone turned to you and said, “I totally love your name,” and how awkward it was to choose a reply? I mean, you could have just said “Thanks,” and been on your way, but it’s...
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One Man’s Trash…
Well, it’s going to be trash day again soon in the town of Newport. I know this because pretty much everywhere I go in town I see discarded items by the side of the road. In front of one red-brick home...
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