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This is where you will find short stories, personal essays, and guest posts. Family and friends and the ordinary business of life are the inspiration for this section.
Behind the Locked Door – 2 – Book Notes
Comment:The book is about my older brother (Errol) who died of colon cancer at 33. I know, it sounds gruesome, and it is, but it’s also beautiful. I’ve poured my heart and head into every chapter, every word. The competent Cypress House staff informs me that I should...
Behind The Locked Door – 1
Keep your eye on this space. We are hoping our novel will be out by year end. As we wait, we will be posting excerpts, thoughts and pictures. There are no pictures in the book. These blogs will provide some additional historical perspective to hopefully induce...
Arguing With Myself
The spiritual view is that man is divine in origin with an immortal soul. The materialist view is that man is an evanescent accident with no moral nature except that created in him by his experience and culture. As mortal human beings, we have no way o’ knowing which...
Ignorance, Apathy and More
As the joke goes: Q: What is the difference between ignorance and apathy? A: I don’t know and I don’t care. What are we to make of this in today’s political environment? The First Lady wears a jacket that conspicuously says: “I don’t...
Pandora Box Complex
I have been called a Luddite. I welcome it. Do you know what a Luddite is? A person who hates newfangled contraptions… Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something....
One Big Happy Family
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look...
Life’s Pleasant Surprises
These are random thoughts, silly meaningless phrases, ideas, definitions, quotes, etc. Does it matter where they come from? I cite sources when I can. The soul, whatever that is, seems to need these interstices, room to stretch, degrees of freedom, mental doodles...
Book Review: Autumn by Ali Smith
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] We are living in a culture that insists on lying as its delivery of how we are living,” she said then. “It insists on telling us information about which we are left wondering whether it is true or not … Fiction and...
Short Fiction – Cado Maestro Tiene Su Librito (Every Teacher Has His Little Book)
While Augustine was working on his book On the Trinity, he was walking by the seaside one day, meditating on the difficult problem of how God could be three Persons at once. He came upon a little child. The child had dug a little hole in the sand, and with a small...
Short Fiction – Desipio: Last Part
This is the End of a two part story. For the first part go HERE Desipio continued ..“Have you seen how he throws the salt over his shoulder after he spills it?” asks Rosa.Carmelita continues looking at the garden while she answers.“He goes back to that garden over...
Short Fiction – Desipio: First Part
“Desipio, get out of the garden. Don’t pee on the flowers.”Desipio looks down in a forlorn stare. His unkempt but abundant hair stands up like whipped and caramelized egg whites. He has the urge to pee but he can’t and the pain is excruciating when he...
Poem By Think in the Morning: Micpapalotl
In remembrance of Francisco Toledo [REVISED] Micpapalotl (The Black Witch Moth) In Oaxaca the rains end lateIn the Fall and thoughts turnTo life and death and fateAnd to what we might learn About death from the deadWhen they come to visitAs it is often saidThey do. ...