Written Wednesday, 2/16/21… A couple of months ago my girlfriend started having a problem keeping food down because she felt nauseated. Normally light on her feet, the woman began to shuffle and stumble a bit. As time wore on, there was fatigue and listlessness to go with the other symptoms, so she went into the … Read more
Part Two… Why Richard? Oh, Richard, why? I was home, peacefully eating breakfast and drinking coffee when Richard returned. His face was speckled white, his hair was splattered with paint, and he was grinning like a child. Also, his feet were white, and I ought to have asked more questions, but the first was this: … Read more
Part One… Richard meant well, he really did, and when he was sober, which was two days a week, somewhere between Tuesday night and Thursday at noon, and he would and he could follow his best intentions through. Having Richard as a roommate was sometimes fun, always entertaining, but it was like living with someone … Read more
Wanda the Witch was actually a witch, but her real name wasn’t Wanda. I was never quite sure who the woman was, yet I was beginning to edge away from mainstream religion, and Wanda’s cat liked me. At nineteen, I had a veteran drinking problem and smoked a lot of pot. Wanda was more than … Read more
Miss Bonnie was one of those people in Blakley Georgia who was like the statue of the Peanut at the Courthouse ⬊, or the water tower; she had always been there, and always would be there, timeless and eternal. Her tiny house was always perfectly clean, and tidy, her yard looked like something out of … Read more
When a man starts working as a Construction Inspector, there are many contractors who see him as a possible ally. They try to educate him, teach him how things work, tell war stories, and generally speaking, they develop a relationship built on mutual respect and a quest for a better product is formed. Hairy Larry … Read more
When George Floyd was murdered, thousands of citizens marched peacefully on the Capitol, where they were met by a force of hundreds of soldiers, just in case a riot broke out. No one died, nothing was burned, and other than traffic being worse than normal, life went on. All of this was brought on by … Read more
The troubles went on in Northern Ireland for thirty years or so, with one side trying to unite Ireland and the other trying to keep Protestant Northern Ireland as a part of England. Bombings and shootings were common. Most notably were the assassinations, or more precisely, the murders of Ross McWhirter, co-founder of The Guinness … Read more
My dislike, disdain, and outright abhorrence for Christmas was learned behavior, and then like all prejudices, it was sown with the self-support people will apply when they are emotionally detached from a cultural event. But there are more people like me every year, for every year Christmas becomes less and less about some festive event … Read more
In case you’re new here, I have very vivid dreams. There are places I’ve dreamed about, dreamscapes I call them, that repeat, and they do not exist in the real world. There’s an entire dreamscape city, with a tall building where all the floors look exactly the same and it is difficult to tell where … Read more