The Eulogist
Saturday Reflections – (A Short Story)
I awoke to the muted quiet of another lonely Saturday morning. The day held no promise of excitement as had none of my days for as long as I could remember. Without thought, I removed myself from the coils of blanket that formed a shroud around my body. Fitful nightly […]
RIY – Ruin It Yourself Projects
You are all familiar with the concept of Do It Yourself (DIY) Projects of course. This is where you, the common man or woman tackle household projects without the benefit of a safety net to catch you should you fall. The goal is to fix or adjust something in your […]
Abandoned in the Magic Kingdom
Disneyland was both a rite of passage for me and an ongoing annual family pilgrimage. When I was a child, this tradition was a once or twice a year excursion and the anticipation of arriving at the park grew with each mile dad slogged on the freeway. We began our […]
Bye Bye Love
(Knock, Knock – Who’s There? Hello Love!)
How many here have been divorced? Hands? Let’s see, one, two, eighteen, three thousand Seventy… (damn – the phone rang and I lost count, I’ve got to start over). Anyway, this is a not so exclusive club apparently. I won’t bore us here with statistics but I do recall as […]
French Kissing The French Poodle
Let’s be clear about something. I love my dog. There I said it and I am glad now you all know. She is the sweetest, cutest, cuddliest, funniest…. Ok… I guess you get the picture. Tikvah the Chihuahua/Schipperke mix was my little ‘rescue’ pooch – one of many over the […]
Bus Stop – On The Street Where You Live…
Perhaps you recall, perhaps not, a time when responsible parents didn’t worry about marauding hordes of terrorists, sex traffickers, priests, boy scout leaders, etc. plucking their children from a cul-de-sac water balloon fight with the neighbor’s kids and shipping them off to sweat shops in Indonesia. I grew up in […]