Reaching through the thorns
"The kids" call it "touching grass"
It's All Personal
Opinions and stories about things that matter. It's all personal to me.
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A blazing world rekindles
Historical fiction, real history and the past on repeat
Remembering one beautiful day
I'm grateful for what remains unchanged
The cartoon presidency
The villain has taken over the US government and is raking in all the goodies
I know you're old, but what am I
Growing old is in many ways much like having your first baby--no one can truly appreciate the overwhelming, all-consuming novelty of it until it's happening.
Wishful Thinking
Wake me when it's overWhen sunlight seeps through the curtains and the room begins to lightenWhen the light steadies and growsWhen dawn arrives before I rise and light remains when sleep subsides.When waking feels weightlessWhen waking feels shadeless
On the Third of July
Families have begun to arrive in our beach community, golden retrievers and black labs running ahead of young fathers struggling down the sidewalk with grocery and sleeping bags and pillows, mothers wearing swaddled babies, frowning as toddlers stagger forward.