Yes, I will state with relief and inspiration coursing through my (aging) veins: GETTING OLDER IS A CERTAIN SORT OF FREEDOM, and no one is more surprised than I am to realize this! I mean, it's difficult to see this…

I woke early, just before dawn, and set out for the water. I pack up the car. I'm tired of giving myself to everything other than that which is real and holy in this world. My body is filled with…

My mother and I were standing in the walk-in closet in my parents' bedroom, trying to find the clothes my father had laid out for her on their bed an hour earlier, just before he went out to Saturday evening…

We were at the Naval Communications Training Center , Corey Field , in Pensacola , Florida. The beaches are pure white sand and the oysters from the Gulf are delicious. You wouldn't think that oysters from such warm waters would…

What is the answer to my good friend’s question about how I feel about the narrative direction of Kenji's almost finished documentary? Can only say that – up until the past year or so – I've had a hard time…

I was first introduced to Richard Brautigan by a Marine Corps Lance Corporal. We were stationed in Scotland, Edzell, Scotland. He had been to Vietnam and I think if you survived that, they gave you easier duty, thus Scotland. Actually…

It was, and still is apparently, the answer. I remember very little of my childhood. My amnesia has protected me from remembering, and possibly reliving, what must have been painful events. I often wonder if I want to remember or…

SOMEHOW we get through this valley of sadness and pain that is Life, and i know the way we do it is to put aside all the things that threaten us too much. Amnesia WAS not only the answer ...it…

(fiction) Marla circled her living room like she did too many times when Jenna came to stay. She loved her sister, but their familial link made for tense times. She never wandered the living room with friends. Her sister had…

Oh, woe is me. I hate it when people play the victim. Can't they see that I am the one that is oppressed? Me. ME. In fact, I may just be the most oppressed person who ever was. In the…

Of course, the biggest cry baby of all, in our lifetime anyway, is that orange horror named Donald J. Trump. Because he had a lousy sick childhood, raised by ravenous wolves in the place of caring parents, we are now…