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”
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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 