Monthly Archives: April 2024

Sea Level

There are times when you do not see the bad logic except in the rear mirror. I first tried sushi in a desert. I was in Las Vegas at a buffet and it was there that I thought it was … Continue reading

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The Art of Not Giving Up

I want to show youthe special magicof staying with ittil the job is donebut if you don’t have it in youI don’t see how I’m going to be able to convince you. Quitters gonna quitand I can’t make a leopard change … Continue reading

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Trail Gone Cold

It is sobering, tonight,walking in this strange townwhere nobody knows my nameand realizingif I disappear from hereit will take days for anyone to recognizethat I am gone. No one expects to hear from meuntil I get back to townand by thenmy … Continue reading

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Tiny Monsters

There is something about the monsters that are smaller than humans. The creatures that frighten us not by size not with strength but with some other factor that brings the terror in some subtler way. The monsters like microbes. The … Continue reading

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Those Who Come Out

Lucy Sante after reading from her recent memoir explained that she wasn’t ready to transition until she was sixty six partially because she was ignorant of the possibility, partially because she was in denial, and partially because there were things … Continue reading

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Lovely

When I first discovered you, Lovely, you were all that my head could contain but as our months have soldiered on I’ve found other things in my brain. Though it’s true that you fill me with wonder and I swear … Continue reading

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Big Sun Rays

Out there with your friends playing in the parkknowing things might be getting crazy after dark. No one’s there to catch you when no one there can seebut sooner or later you will have to pay the fee.  Even if you … Continue reading

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Excision

When I finally begin the painful process of removing that which is unnecessary from my lifehere is a partial list of what is going to go. Be on warning, all of you below: XXXL clothing.Magazines that I haven’t read from fifteen … Continue reading

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Technical Difficulties

Word on the streetis that you’re experiencing technical difficulties. I would like to be able to help youwith your problemsbut I am also experiencing technical difficulties. It appears the whole world is experiencing technical difficulties.In this we are one.  Can we take a … Continue reading

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The Great Challenge

A furious tide ahead, you sit beside the beacha book on your kneessand blowing onto the pages,distracting you from the thing you know you must do:conquer the waves.Fight the sea. The salty water knows what it has done,challenging you.Threatened your family.You cannot … Continue reading

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