A retired English teacher learns of a rumour about two missing high school students and sets out to solve the fifty year old puzzle.
The Bel Air inside the Bog
Tag: life
Reunion Dues
I realized that many people we grew up with or near were never friends. They were just background extras in the journey to adulthood.
The True Story
A critical view of the popular “nonfiction” essay type, magazines and places where it appears, and the book version known as the long walk.
Deja Vieux
Martin rescues his mother from her fake armed robberies of bars, while facing down his delusions of huge black crows with metallic talons.
Bootsy
Bootsy is about a whimsical cat who can predict the future, often with disturbing conclusions. Based on true events.
My so called life
A description of how my daily fight through this life feels.
What Is Life?
I exist on earth after my birth, and I am constantly doing something to keep my life going; if I don’t, then it is no longer worth existing.
Living out of a Van
Inspired by a van that is parked in a parking lot I have seen in different sections of my state and it intrigued me to write this poem.
Start Stop (There Once Were No Flowers)
A reflection on the need for understanding, mercy and discovery in all things involving other people. There is no final, or last, Stop.
Shade Tree Diplomacy
Life is conflict. While we think we know how we’d act as we watch someone else in a dispute, when it’s us we may not be quite so sure.
The Benefit of a Bad Beginning
A bad start in life gives the good things that finally come a rare preciousness.
To M.
Maybe these words are my Ariadne’s thread whenever I lose my bearings in that absurd maze they unwisely call life.
An Inconvenient Truth
A mother’s reaction to her daughter’s unplanned pregnancy.
Jack in the Box
Do we ever really know our parents, or do we only think we do? Can an adult have a “coming of age” experience?
Pale Almond Blossoms
Inspiration drawn from the stuff of life.
Oh Bobby, Why Didn’t You Look?
The accidental death of a child and the impact upon his family and his father’s lover.
malaise
what is this strange feeling in me,
that gnaws on my marrow.