She waves me over on the side of the road. The blonde lady, with a concerned face. We slow, already late for school. She points to a yearling, a buck, tangled in invisible wire, caught between the street and the land where cows welped a half-a-dozen calves, prior to summer. I shift into park before walking […]

As the sun rises after the longest winter, I hear Him whisper, “Sit with me for awhile”. I spin, twist, rise, wrestless in defense, justifying my own self importance, all the things I need to say, all the things I need to do. And yet, I remember his baby blues; staring, heeding, reminded me to slow […]

We are writing his Obituary today. And how do you tell a man’s whole life in a few captions and paragraphs? How do you convey to the world, the fullness of a man from childhood to gray hair, with just a single picture? Yet, I see him in the details… In the sun shining through the […]

On this side of the veil… I lay looking out at the twinkling lights painted against the black palet of night. A child wondering what resides, on the other side of the veil. On this side of the veil… I cling and fight as a youth, desperate for a peak of hope, stories unfolding in my […]

She had to get to him. She didn’t have any other options. There was no “Plan B”. Her heart was broken. She had been outcast from the people… Separated, segregated, for far too long. As the “unhealthy”, the church excluded her. Society rejected her. The people despised her, as if contaminated, infected. Where else did she […]

My face is swollen. I stumble to the mirror. It’s 5:00 a.m. Puffy eyes, enlarged nose. My eyes still red from the night before, after the news; my Father’s cancer has returned. A world in chaos, elections, Coronavirus. And then, a five month long battle, keeping my dad alive from an agressive kind of cancer, Acute […]