When he was done with his questions, he asked me if Bobbie could make him some fried chicken, because he was craving it. The man hadn’t eaten anything solid in days, and ever since they took out his stomach, he…

Hunger. Though I am now on Ozempic, and much of my hunger has disappeared and i no longer have food constantly on my mind, i am well aware that Life IS short and that I have been hungry for all…

Life is trade-offs….it is probably nothing but trade offs, if the truth be known. I traded a conventional life with kids and homemaking to be a performer on the broader stages of Broadway and other parts known and unknown. I…

Yesterday I made a decision --- and it was a sort of trade-off, although I’m not sure that I will have the will to relinquish what I thought I traded. It’s an odd consideration. Besides it wasn’t “strange,’ and besides…

Hi! This is a backtrack from yesterday and an add on. For some reason I remember it perfectly. It was a Thursday afternoon, the kids were staying late because a clown (a neighbor) came after school to put on a…

(Note: We're still with Wade, but have moved ahead in time.) I poured more Coke into my cup and scanned the room for Hank, in case he’d slipped in without me noticing, which was unlikely. Ever since Hank got rich,…

What I am hungry for is my life. I have been trying to hold on, hold on. I don’t think people realize or even suspect how concentrated that effort is. I fear if they knew the real me, the hunger…

Leave the questions behind you. Everyone thinks they have the answers. But no one does. Really. We're all trying to figure it out. And if anyone tells you they know how you need to breathe stand speak decide, don't believe…

Every year I buy an advent calendar to help me count down the days until Christmas. More than that, though, it brings me a delight each day for 25 days. It started when a friend gave me a calendar from…

……..of Creative Caffeine….well, there are several….and the reason i want to write this today is because i know that somewhere by someone i am being read....Creative Caffeine guarantees that somewhere by someone i will be read. I spent decades in…

What I wanted her to know, this sad, tired-looking woman who approached my door, is that I never lost sight of her, during all those months and years. Even as we painted all rooms, one by one, and eventually replaced…

I know you are reading this. Actually, I can see you reading, see you through the window behind the building of your condo. Your lovely condo. You will go to that window shortly, and pull back the drape to see…