Growing up in a large Irish Catholic family, you knew certain things to be true. # 1 You would be going to Mass on Sunday. This was not up for debate, or a vote or subject to your current position on the Catholic church. You were going. # 2 If you were a female, youContinue reading “Consequences”
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Three Day Minimum
My best friend growing up in Texas was Karen. She lived two doors down from us, and our home lives could not have been any more different. I was number seven of eight kids in a big Irish Catholic family. My sisters and brothers ranged from their twenties to a two year old, my babyContinue reading “Three Day Minimum”
The Seedling
One day recently, as I was going about my normal routine, a thought popped into my head. “To grow a seed is the greatest form of hope” I don’t know where this came from, or why it popped into my head. When thoughts like these occur, I call them “Stray dogs of thought” There areContinue reading “The Seedling”
Psych Ward
As I pull my car into the hospital parking lot, there are two ambulances outside the main entrance. One is under the portico, not running, doors shut. The other is a few feet ahead of it, where three paramedics stand around a stretcher talking. The man on the stretcher is upright, belted to the stretcher,Continue reading “Psych Ward”
Why “The view from my back porch ?”
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. “Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft I asked my close friend to preview the piece that I am posting today. After giving me her feedback , she posed a direct question,Continue reading “Why “The view from my back porch ?””
The View from my Back Porch 