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I couldn’t sleep last night. The clock on the wall seemed more than happy to have company as it announced each hour that was passing – 1am… 2am… I just could not reconcile what had happened today. Lines have been crossed. I have moved…   Read More →

For the first time in my life I felt as if I had been thrown back to another time. A time not so long ago when people had to be careful about what they said in public (and private). To ensure they wore the…   Read More →

Once again, here I sit, but now I’m in a basement apartment at my brother’s house. I have cleaned it, reorganized and re-energized it – as is my modus operandi. Nothing much has changed from the life I left (as you can see) and…   Read More →

We got up early and had to scramble quickly. It was the first time sleeping in the rig (street side) and it was a rough night. At around 12am we were startled awake by the radio blaring Def Leppards’s “Rock of Ages“. Apparently, the…   Read More →

Have you watched the “The Truman Show”? It was released in 1998 and twenty-two years later, this movie, that I once considered simple entertainment, is rife with meaning and message. I have oft considered movies to be a forerunner of intended truth that must…   Read More →

Decision made. Life has been nothing but moving targets lately. Today, Ken decided to hand in his resignation at work. His last day with D&B Supply is July 12th. A belated “independence” day for us! It is a bit sooner than we had planned…   Read More →

The month of June is almost at a close. As I sit and type I hear the rain coming down outside my open window. I love the rain – the way it sounds, looks and smells. I often just want to step into it,…   Read More →

This is my latest word magnet poem “Novel Poet”. A palette of my colorful thoughts on the current state of affairs surrounding the “pandemic” and the war of words that I feel are designed to create a viral chaos of the mind and soul….   Read More →

It was my first real job and Louise was assigned the task of training me. She was a no-nonsense woman in her mid fifties and she found me amusing – in a good tempered way. As I access the memories I can clearly see…   Read More →

This post has been a long time coming. When the world was seized by an invisible irrepressible foe it paralyzed my desire to write. A strange new war had developed. It sent my thoughts sideways in an attempt to understand the full gravity of…   Read More →