There is great joy in spending time with people who look like it is painful to be near you which is to say there is a person I have seen multiple times who sometimes acts as if I have befouled the air between us. We don’t know each other well, but we know someone in… Continue reading It’s Not Nice To Ignore People
Year: 2018
Twenty Years In Texas Wouldn’t Help
Twenty years or more in Texas wouldn’t make me feel any better about a particular situation that cropped up the other day but it is fair to say three years hasn’t made me any less angry or optimistic than twenty years would. At least that is what I say to myself, in the quiet of… Continue reading Twenty Years In Texas Wouldn’t Help
69 Ways To Get Your Attention & One To Lose It
Someone is digging through the archives at another joint and I reacquainted myself with words I once wrote upon paper. Parts and pieces of a past that reaches into the present and hints about a future still unseen. So I sing along with the blind man and ask if it is possible to dislike this… Continue reading 69 Ways To Get Your Attention & One To Lose It
Your ‘Real’ Best Friend
It is almost a full year since my parent’s first second visit to Texas. When they came in 2013 it was just me living here. Got a call from them the day they left Cleveland letting me know about how long it would be before they made it from there to here. Told them that… Continue reading Your ‘Real’ Best Friend