What we might have said, if we had known in time
I’m worried, I said to my sister, half a country away. I am too, she said. I remember a news item, little commented upon, a little more than a month […]
Category Archives: The Daily Write
“There, you will make your stand”
Truth is stranger than fiction, they say, and they are right, at least sometimes. I know someone struck by lightning three times. Two of America’s Founding Fathers died on July […]
Be Someone’s Orange Daisy On a Bad Day
If you help me I’ll give your wife wine. My h read the text aloud. A few years ago he became allergic to alcohol, since then I only get to […]
“He’s not gonna go.”
My h was right all along about the Current Occupant
Bean Dad, Hilaria, Tornadoes and the Art of Self Protection
Coronavirus is much like a tornado. Some parts of the country don’t have tornado weather, so maybe it’s only natural they don’t recognize the warning signs.
Oh Cap’n! My Cap’n!
how can I deny you?
The death of the Easter bunny
I’ve heard the saying ‘Give me a child before age 5, I’ll give you a Catholic forever’ and it’s true Catholicism has a certain stickiness, something I’ve personally attributed to […]
Running with ghosts
I was not the only one entranced by the weird crystal blueness of your eyes
A poem for the end of the world
We burned the koalas out of existence; they screamed loudly as they died, but that wasn’t enough to make us stop. The whales we choked with plastic were more silent, […]
Obituary
I read your obituary and it was awful, basically just a long list of names, some of people that you hardly ever saw, much less knew you liked strawberry ice […]
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