Mistakes, love and scrawling, that's what makes a friendship. It's not deliberate or coordinated, it happens. How does it start? How does the scrawling start? Sometimes there’s a moment. Like when I was the new kid in school, my 9th…

It’s usually the dawn and dusk hours, when the endangered bird that shares the primordial marsh with me makes its clapping noise. Most times, it is alone, sometimes another one, nearby, responds. They may make that clapping sound with their…

Piles of humanity , wrapped up in sleeping bags, dirty old smelly blankets, headscarves, ragged shoes, clothing that has seen many better days and gloves with no fingers, they lie there, snuggly sleeping or reading , maybe eating some stuff…

(Note: I'm using this writing to work on my novel in progress. ) “You want money for what now?” Chuck Tinker sat back in his cracked leather chair, out of place since the bank had decided to redo the branch…

there is a smile. hidden deep. I know it's there because sometimes I hear it singing. it's s simple song, about joy. I think. it is hard to hear through echoing of thoughts reverberating off the walls of my head.…

Every minute, every second, every infinitesimal instant sounds notes for me on an inspiring musical scale. At least - the very least- that’s how I experience the world as I dance my finite time through it. Through seven decades, I’ve…

A corner of her smooth curved heart broke off, A piece of iceberg Tired of its own rigor, holding on, Til the climate got too hot. She melted into salty water. But first he died, And how can even The…

My parting words to Mo were, "I'm going to hit the bathroom before I get into the car, let you get on with your day. Thank you." To my surprise, when I got back, she was waiting for me. “You…

“I hear you, Pete. I really do. But there’s just no way the bank is going to let you take any of that hog barn money and put it into anything except a hog barn.” “You’re a hundred percent sure…

In June 2021, just five months before release of “Call of Duty: Vanguard,” the video game we’d been crunching to finish in time for bug squashing and mandatory tech checks, the executives in the C-suite got nervous. At the crux…

It's not lost on me that I have focused too much on the circumstances of your death. On the drama. Your death is a secret that I offer new friends, that I consider sharing with casual acquaintances. You probably don't…

The cherry tomatoes are letting go of the plants and dropping into the raised beds and in some cases landing on the cement stairs where we casually squash them on our way back and forth to the car. I picked…