Writing

RIP Johnny Clegg. Thought process: I read about his passing, remembered the lyric, saw the moon rising, grabbed my camera, shot this image with my dogs keeping watch, the mosquitoes biting, come [...]

Hospital visits are hard. Repeated hospital visits are harder. I’m not the first person to watch a loved one slipping away and I will not be the last. It’s not like anything you can [...]

I am a long time addict to Dr Pepper and I’m okay with that. I do not like Coca-cola. It is worth noting that when you add coca-cola to a heathy glass of rum, garnish with a lime and then mix in [...]

And you just want to walk right out to sea?

“It was Steiglitz.” “It was Strand.” “Which one was banging O’Keefe?” “What?” “One of those guys was sleeping with [...]

…one day in December. I’d been there too long and too often and there were never enough chairs. So, I walked away from the hospital room and went next door to the zoo. Next door was [...]

  The plaster fell from the wall. The mic stand hadn’t seen a mic in a dozen months or more. The decorator had died before starting the job. The tape was giving up the ghost. The thumb [...]

From a few years back, but just as vivid today.   I can clearly see the kids from the front window. They’re playing some game, but something doesn’t seem right. White [...]

This is another repost from the old days. The 1970’s were wrong in so many ways and right in so many others. The first song I remember hearing on the radio was Johnny Cash and Waylon [...]

This is a repost of a story that I wrote years ago. The associated images were lost in a web migration and I have them again and thought, “Why not?” And now the story. Obviously, my [...]