Parents and Siblings and Cousins, Oh My!

  • Wiggin’

    Just this second, I’m feeling overwhelmed and out of control.  Oddly, it has nothing to do with the job, which continues to click along at a breakneck pace, taking up virtually all of…

  • Friday Night in Mo-Town

    I am drinking my second beer of the night, in my hotel room, listening to the sounds of the various humans occupying their little blocks of space beside me, below me, above me.…

  • Fairy tale

    Once upon a time, back in the days before my marriage, I still lived with my oldest younger sister.  We lived together in a tiny grayish house in Hillsborough, North Carolina, a town…

  • Childhood Memories

    Walking across the small military base to the pool, swimming for hours in the sun, then returning home.  Taking a hot shower and smelling the chlorine wash away, then watching a movie  with my…