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It seems so long ago, yet just yesterday. I was floundering in a “marriage” to a man determined to drink himself to death, and trying to raise a teenaged daughter who was determined to put me in an early grave. To top it off, I was internally exploring, and beginning to seriously consider, [...]

My mother’s mother died at Christmas, 1956. I was born in May 1957. I was not the 1st grandchild on her side of the family, but my mother was my grandmother’s oldest child, and I am my mother’s oldest child, so there would have been that connection. All my life, as I grew up and [...]

This is a hard post to write, and I’m not even sure how to do it, but I’m going to try. In summer, 2006, my mom passed away. I, being the oldest of her 4 children, got to handle her estate, and for that, I was very glad to have been a paralegal [...]

Seeking the Sacred
It comes to this:
Knowing the warmth of your hand
Upon my touch-starved desert flesh,
The soft caress, palm to palm,
Fingers twining one to one,
Tracing each knuckle bend, each milky nail.
I wake remembering a kiss
Never given nor received,
Yet always offered:
My sacrificial lips swollen with the rush
Of amorous blood clamoring release.
The salty fruit of your skin
Lingers upon [...]

Guilty pleasures? Oh my god, I have to narrow it down to 1o? Well, here goes nuttin:
1. Taking a long drive to nowhere, just looking at the scenery. (Didn’t used to be a guilty pleasure, but now with the price of gas….)
2. Watching old movies on TV when I should [...]

I could write a whole book about my parents and my relationship with them. Actually, I could write three or four books. One about my dad, one about my mom, one about them, and one about them and me. At least. That doesn’t even count my two brothers and one sister, and how they fit [...]

So, today, my wife decides she needs to go look at new beds. We have been discussing the possibility of a new bed for a while, but she has impending knee surgery in October. Normally, she almost always sleeps on the floor because of a back injury incurred the in military, and she will need [...]