Autobiography

Life is Precious

Years ago we took a train ride to visit our son in Toronto. The private suite on the train was half-price and was the first time we ever spent the money on one.

Composure

When you hit rock bottom, you either bounce or splatter. What determines which? A Kim Kardashian-like ass, or an intestinal fortitude of Clint Eastwood in "Hang 'Em High"?

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She then went on ahead, towards the cafe section, as if willing me to stop nearby. Her father's pet: the carrier pidgeon, fair

Uncertainty

Have you ever had that moment where your mind just completely shuts down? Loosing your memory in a split second?

Deadly Dominoes: Chapter One

My novel/memoir in progress. This is chapter one, starting with my father, who was shot down over Berlin in WWII and spent the final year of the war in a Nazi POW camp. He came home a changed man, and the dominoes would then begin to fall...

Christmas Shoppers

He walks like an animal pacing its cage She walks like she's dragged down by a weight He walks as if edging towards a precipice She walks as if she were making a debut on stage

The dance of death

The reason in my mind Becomes the resonance with in yours When I am gone the path continues My path continues My empty words Only my actions have meaning But when I am crowded in

A Journey of Living

He still did remember, in spite of a broken ankle, arthritis and so forth. Even good times took place during the happenings of those three-time aching moments.

christmas crows

Christmas crows quick black shadows pass by the skylight; hints of yesterday peeling away, to a pale grey sky beneath, left wanting, heavy with the promise of questions.