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Bluegrass and the Random Wonderful

October 8, 2019by SFine Leave a comment

I tend to avoid crowds successfully enough that I forget how being in one can so easily restore my optimism. One of the best things about San Francisco is Hardly […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, growing up midwestern, love, not horror, reflections

Song of the crickets

August 12, 2018by SFine 2 Comments

There’s a girl I knew, in the strange way of the Internet.  Named for a flower, she is the daughter of a man I met on a defunct writing site…a […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, Essays, love, not horror, reflections

Famous Last Words

October 8, 2017by SFine 3 Comments

Today I read the last words of a reporter who blogged his own death.  His name was Mark Mooney, and I don’t know what kind of  reporter he was in […]

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Bird's Eye View, love, not horror, reflections, The Daily Write

The Long Farewell

December 10, 2016by SFine 6 Comments

I thought about you today.  I always do when it rains.  You would appreciate the fact that the little sensor that detects rainwater on the windshield of a car and […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, love, reflections

When Your Husband Sits Next To A Goddess & Other Rainy Day Baker Thoughts

October 14, 2016by SFine Leave a comment

Originally posted on Caneléfornia:
It’s a rainy day and so I tried to cut the morning walk short but Jake wasn’t having any of it.  Come on, I say…

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, love, not horror, reflections, the sporting life

Just Another Message to the Muse

September 29, 2016by SFine 11 Comments

I don’t know whether to think of passion as a fruit or a feeling but I do know what it is to ski three thousand vertical feet thinking of you […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, love, not horror

The Banquet of Desire

September 14, 2016by SFine 5 Comments

I want to chew through you like steak. I want to feel the many textures of you against my tongue – here, rough like salted almonds; there, smooth like mashed […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, love, not horror, but still uncomfortable

How I Asked Him to Marry Me

January 12, 2014by SFine 20 Comments

This past December 24th marked my 5th wedding anniversary.  We spent the day skiing in Big Sky Montana, topped off by dinner at the famous 2nd Street Bistro in Livingston […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, love

Just a moment, please….

October 15, 2013by SFine 6 Comments

There are moments in our lives.  Moments that naturally separate themselves, falling away from the thousands of others, standing out like a scarlet leaf fluttering brightly in the memory. At […]

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Essays, love, reflections

The Heart Is An Organ Of Fire

April 12, 2013by SFine 3 Comments

 She is traveling, something she will probably be doing more of now,  after the breakup.  She has begun noticing the distraction of other people again. At the airport, a couple […]

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Bird's Eye View, flash, love, Short Fiction

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