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Arrivals and Departures

Poetry, essays and short stories to make sense and meaning out of this too short existence!

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A difficult time...

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Days of Slow Time (Part 2 of 2)

A mother's reflection on the "graduations" of a lived life (Part 2 of 2)

Days of Slow Time (Part 1 of 2)

A mother's reflection on the "graduations" of a lived life (Part 1 of 2)

Parallel Lines

#59: A 100-word story on traveling forward and back—in time

Who do you think you are?

Thoughts on suffering and the questions it poses.

Mylo says...

#58: An EXACTLY 100-word story on my interesting conversation with Mylo

Family Barters, Partitions, and more...

#57: An exactly 100-word Partition story

I got in a quarrel with Time

A philosophical, life affirming poem about beating time's tyranny and reframing our losses as treasures we have forever

Origin of influence

#56: A new 100-word story about examining what we allow before pointing fingers.

Good intentions matter. Maybe...

A short essay on the question of "good intentions".

My mother and I in a photograph

A poem in three "Tankas"

Jim of Cincinnati

A micro essay account of a brown woman in Cincinnati, Ohio in the early 1990s

I am knee

Confessions of a problematic knee (personal essay, mildly embellished)

Ageless grace

#54: A 100-word story about grace of love

Gorgeous Beauty "Saloon"(Part 2 of 2)

Second and final part of the short story.

Gorgeous Beauty "Saloon"

NEW Fiction!!! Part 1 of a short story in two parts.

crawl space creatures (poem)

A NEW poem about more than what we ignore in the crawl space.

Sex Ed: Nuns, Knees and Unknowables (short story)

This is a work of AUTO-FICTION (but which is which?)

Secrets found: An exchange

Grief: Part 4 of 5

Secrets hidden from view: An exchange

Grief: Part 3 of 5