My father’s house
Recently I had cause to spend a couple of nights in an old abandoned farmhouse, moving out decades worth of stored furniture. I was both relieved and disappointed that there […]
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This unfinished turn around the sun
In California the winters are green and the summers are brown, the opposite of where we come from. It took some getting used to, like you being gone has taken […]
A tale of two tweets
Scrolling through Twitter yesterday, two tweets stayed with me. One shows goth rocker Alice Cooper serving meals at a homeless shelter, but it wasn’t his rock and rollishness that stood […]
Coming up close
…and he just got into his car and drove away
A letter to the universe
We talk about reaching solid ground and solid ground does not exist. The ground is faulted; necessarily so. Balance is an illusion.
Goodbye, my dear
Clint Miller, who was once my husband for 19 years, and my friend even longer, has died.
Coup Coup Kachoo
Comedy is the most difficult subgenre of horror to pull off – but Americans pulled it off January 6th.
Are We Arsonists or Firefighters?
“Not a dollar more than legally required.” This was the answer that Mitt Romney gave to a journalist’s question about how much he paid in taxes. He said it with […]
Song of the crickets
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 […]
Glass Half Full of Evil
Are you a glass half empty or glass half full person? What if it’s a jar of broken glass? Spread there, for you to step on? This is a question […]
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