I didn't know I had it easy for 12 years. I didn't know having it easy was tearing everything apart. Another way to say, "you have it easy" is, "you're ignoring the hard stuff." I used to study Latin many…

The best part of being human is that the good things come easy and good things are what we deserve. Like this piece that just flowed out of me this very morning.....true, I've labored at writing since i was fifteen…

We first met Asya when she was FaceTiming with our youngest son, Jackson. He was home for Thanksgiving and had been talking to her when we walked into the family room where he was sitting on the couch, feet up…

“Nothing comes without labor.” Connie set her coffee mug on the green plaid oilcloth table cover Maureen had just bought and looked out the window. The view was of the neighbors hauling trash bins down the sidewalk. Maureen raised herself…

She worked at the French restaurant, Louis. She was very pretty and reminded me of my language teacher my junior year in school. She was also a bitch. I'm not sure where that came from but she was very rude…

nothing comes without labor labor giving birth, allowing as labor? what labors, good built slowly over long time, bad things, suddenly. what good can I build slowly over a long time? what have I already been building? small and daily…

"Heave!" Carlisle flinched as the overseer's whip cracked. He felt the air ripple as it passed by his ear. A ringing sensation accompanied it, for the fifth time in as many minutes. "Put your backs into it, you maggots! We…

On Saturday, I picked up my son Stevie, and we drove to Portland to watch my beautiful niece Merehuka perform in a play called Streetcar Named Desire. The original script was 179 pages, so it was a three-hour play with…

I had an ‘aha’ experience yesterday. That was the day when President Trump declared a widespread freeze on Federal Grants until he could determine which ones had been influenced by the Deep State, Wokeness, People who don’t look like him…

This lifelong struggle to understand, shaded by the urge to gain the upper hand of it and magically by dint of universal attachment, to keep oneself somewhere above the bottom rung. Being on the next to bottom run, the enormity…