House where the mouse lives…

Gen-X returns to college… some ten-odd years after some of our first shots, right after high school and full of ideology and substance abuse, left those same colleges with the promise of travel or romanticism cemented with early children. And so it goes and today, mid-to-late thirties and you are a student. Then the awkwardly-placed [...]

Random

If I fell in love more than once it was only because I met the other by chance. If I wore heels and made my face it was only because the memory needed painting. If I laughed too hard, slowed the wine, waited to call, or wrote a story it was only because it happened [...]

A- for accountability

Sleeping is for sissies… eating is for grazing cows… dreaming is for sleeping, when we rather rest…
We change when we grow up and when we fall in love, when we move to another town and when we become parents. Knowing this does not make the process any easier and while we expect it, drops like [...]

“That’s what she said”

“Why is this so hard?”
I now understand how important confidence is. Nah, I’m kidding, I have always known! My son will be a month old this Friday, while my daughter on occasion believes she’s Peter Pan. If I never wanted to be the type that spoke about her children in every conversation, at least I [...]

Argument and pretty people

I reject the idea that two plus two equals four, there, I said it. I also reject the concept of dying flowers and the change of the seasons. A few people have rejected the concept of me, or just me entirely. It is never a surprise when it happens, but that never really cushions the [...]

I refuse to be bitter… and other lies we tell ourselves

People tell me it’s a sin,
To know and feel too much within. -Bob Dylan’s “Simple Twist of Fate”
Grow up! Enough of this mess and the excuses you have been making, for people parasitic and cruel. Enough of being afraid, worried about things you have no control over. As individuals, free even when honored, there’s that [...]

This is how

We can keep things private and only fuck-up in silence… or make lawn signs announcing your mistakes. I am sick of doing the things I’m not supposed to then refusing to learn from them. These are the dark ages, intellectual famine and debilitating self-doubt, lack of financial stability and love’s destructive forces on stand-by. You [...]

Beast of burden… for your pleasure.

Rikki Don’t Lose That Number

We hear you’re leaving, thats ok
I thought our little wild time had just begun
I guess you kind of scared yourself, you turn and run
But if you have a change of heart
Chorus:
Rikki don’t lose that number
You don’t wanna call nobody else
Send it off in a letter to yourself
Rikki don’t lose that number
Its [...]

Killing the messenger

The many definitions of a shadow. Number twelve states: a period or instance of gloom, unhappiness, mistrust, doubt, dissension, or the like, as in friendship or one’s life: Their relationship was not without shadows.
My idea was to live my life as everyday is always one day closer to death, so breathe every breath and count [...]

Wiki -this!

We have forgotten that love is irrational. It doesn’t care of timing or distance and sometime soon it will catch you letting go of something that never was. Perpetually passionate about everything of little importance, at this age the responsibilities you have tried to avoid get brave enough to knock at your front door. If [...]