I suspected the road might be icy and stayed vigilant but it didn’t matter because the patch I hit covered all of the lanes and physics doesn’t care about force of will or prayers. For a moment I wondered if I shared the same sense of dread as the crewman who spotted the iceberg that… Continue reading The End Of The Beginning
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There Is No Dancing In This Fire
I wasn’t dumb enough to believe the beast had been so thoroughly defeated we wouldn’t have another encounter but I didn’t expect it to come back so soon or to hit so hard. Nor did I expect to be sly and clever because this time it was wary in its approach, recognizing that if I… Continue reading There Is No Dancing In This Fire
Promises Kept and Promises Broken
The moon refused to hide our sins just as the sun denied us our blessing. Perhaps it shined brightly but all was lost in the twilight of the moment. Once we had been kings but hubris had stolen our crowns. Promises Kept, Promises Broken The storm left us on opposite sides of the great river… Continue reading Promises Kept and Promises Broken
Would You Celebrate His Death?
Some years ago I wrote a post in which I asked whether you had to be drunk and blind to obtain a drivers license in Texas. It wasn’t as tongue-in-cheek as you might think–the drivers here are awful. Two days while walking through the parking lot in Target an oaf in a large truck almost… Continue reading Would You Celebrate His Death?