My Ideal Bookshelf
I need to buy paper to print out job position descriptions and rough drafts. To get by I use up old pages from repeat trainings, meeting...
Steak and Eggs
I stepped towards the building and pulled open the glass door. Mom liked family breakfasts with all four of us nestled into booths. ...
Weight to the Edges
My dad and I watch PBS at least one evening a week. The nature programs leave me too heartbroken and American Experience too unsettling....
The Emotional Arc of Green Eggs and Ham
A thirty five pound kettle bell. And, no help with a squat. “Aren’t we lucky we have two sides to do?” “No,” I shake my head. “I do not...
Night and Day
Spring weather is night and day Whether or not it's April or May. Slow waking Crisp air. Drunken lilacs. I tie my hood Thrust out my...
Would You Rather?
Would you rather is a game, a children’s game, a game very fitting, perhaps, for childhood when individuals have the least amount of...
Covers. Titles. Chapters. Human Beings. Human Books.
Covers. Titles. Chapters. Human Beings. Human Books. Covers. Though well taught never to judge a book that way, it was the cover of...
Enough
Last Saturday I had to work the part time job that pays my bills. Those jobs I was meant for. . . that I was so good I could do...
Any Number of Eyes
“We should plant the potatoes this week. What’s your schedule?” The energy in my dad’s voice at the prospect belays the...