It’s March … again
I’ve been tossing and turning since the wee hours of the morning, my mind is too busy to sleep. Memories of two years ago are being muddied by the memory of last year and I’m a mess. Two years ago we were stepping into a month of horror, living the end of the beginning of that […]
The neglected muse
Writing has taken a back seat in my life recently – I’ve been giving creativity a wide berth and busying myself with less personal things. I’ve bumped into my muse from time to time over the past few weeks, I’ve had a few close calls where the urge to write almost tripped me, but so […]
The watcher
I’m having a devil of a time trying to write about my recent adventure. I find this odd because it was a great adventure – my whole family (three kids, their spouses and four grandchildren) went for a nine day vacation to one of the happiest places on earth – Disney’s Magic Kingdom – and I […]
Armchair Politics
I have recently discovered CNN – I’ve always been a bit of a news junkie but this.. this discovery has catapulted my addiction to a whole new level. The news from the USA has become something of an evening soap opera for me. I’ve been introduced to programming that is positively riveting and a cast of thousands […]
“What was I saying?”
I’m having a devil of a time finishing a blog post right now. I have several false starts on my iPad – essays which at their onset had potential but petered out before I could wrap them up. I’m full of good ideas but lately I’m having trouble finishing a thought. This isn’t just a problem I’m […]
‘The Before’
I was typing tonight as I often do in the quiet of the evening, concentrating on words, when I unwittingly took a little trip. I don’t know how long I was gone, diving deeper and deeper into my thoughts but it must have been awhile considering the depth of my confusion when I looked up. For a […]
Silver linings
The horizon was dishing out silver linings like Facebook reminders yesterday morning. They were so impressive I was compelled to dig my phone out of my pocket and take a picture – the world was waking up, a new day dawning and silver linings were abundant. In that moment of appreciation it occurred to me that silver […]
Here on the coast
Weather is still the topic du jour – temperatures have been in and out of the minuses for days now and ‘they’ are forecasting more of the same. ‘They’ being a group of fortune telling weather gurus who seem to relish delivering foul weather news to us candy-asses on the coast – ‘they’ appear downright gleeful watching […]
One of the crowd
It’s January. It’s winter. It’s cold. The ocean was kicking up waves like the meringue on a lemon pie yesterday morning, noisy whitecaps rolled onto a rocky shore – ducks, geese and gulls were riding the swell, relaxed and dressed in down. Chester and I, being a hardy pair, were bundled for a winter storm and braving temperatures that […]
First thing in the morning
My dad used to sing in the shower – I don’t mean humming lighthearted melodies as he washed his hair, he belted out big, boisterous marching songs – ‘It’s a long way to Tipperary’, ‘Seventy-six Trombones’, ‘Oh What a Beautiful Morning’. I’d bury my head under my covers listening to his medley and try to grab […]