Shade Tree Diplomacy

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

The Benefit of a Bad Beginning

A bad start in life gives the good things that finally come a rare preciousness.

To M.

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

An Inconvenient Truth

A mother’s reaction to her daughter’s unplanned pregnancy.

Jack in the Box

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

Pale Almond Blossoms

Inspiration drawn from the stuff of life.

Oh Bobby, Why Didn’t You Look?

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

malaise

what is this strange feeling in me,
that gnaws on my marrow.

Anchors and Angels

Anchors and Angels

How the wonders of nature and life can sometimes be lost in translation or even during the attempt to describe them at all.

The Lives of Jellyfish

The Lives of Jellyfish

I can’t stop thinking about jellyfish. I can’t stop thinking.

On Becoming a Centenarian

On Becoming a Centenarian

A newly-minted centenarian expresses her gratitude for her life.

the sacrificing poet

the sacrificing poet

A poet who sacrifices his own life for his own truth while the ones he loves watch on.

The Frightful Fall

The Frightful Fall

A healthcare aid panics when his client falls through the Hoyer Lift and to the floor.

Reflection

Reflection

Reflection on writing and mortality.

Reflections at Age Ninety-nine

Reflections at Age Ninety-nine

Bunny Moon reflects on her life as she approaches her 100th birthday.

Booked to Heaven

Booked to Heaven

I wrote this after my mother told her three sons that she was ready to leave this earth after living to the age of 101.