Millions enjoyed the eclipse.  Above hikers in Utah.

Enjoy

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You know I couldn't let you just slide through my hands.

I watched you suffer a dull ache and pain, now you decided to show me the same

The words I prayed for, the voice I knew… Read full post »

And Storms we cannot weather

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

 I haven’t written and I am sorry. I hit a plateau of pain in writing of that funeral… Read full post »

It has been a while and for those of you closely following I apologize. I had moved into the days of my father’s death and that evoked emotions long since buried. It is irresponsible to write a continuing story only to abandon my readers.

All in all, I have an… Read full post »

Click on the music if you want to turn it off

Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won't heal?

The Christmas of 1996 was the first in many years that spoke to me.   Willie bought so many gifts; every friend of Devo had something.  The children, and adults alike would come into the house and be immediately transported to a Kinkaid Christmas Cottage. T… Read full post »

In 1969 a wedding should have cost no more than $100,000, and that is for royalty!  Yet this one topped that and more.

They closed the wedding shop where she picked her “final offering” garb.  She called it the final offering because her virginity was finally being offered.&nbs… Read full post »

We stayed the weekend in Alabama.  It was supposed to be a vacation and for Willie it was.  For me, it was not.  I cleaned packed and got the run around while Willie stood on the porch talking to her dad about God Knows what. 

Her father was a saint… Read full post »

Or Lack Thereof

The less said, the more heard.    D.S.Lindsey

Write about a Tarot Card reading. This is for an OS fiction piece. But it actually happened. 

When I was married, we had a neighbor who read cards and she offered to read mine. I didn’t want to, but/… Read full post »

Please see the 2 PM's I got below.

I need love AND money.  So lucky I got these!!!

Dear Schuch,

I'm Juriste Avocats SALIFOU JOHN SIGO, Private lawyer to Late Ing. Michael Schuch,a national of your country, who used to work as the Director of petroliers total Benin, On 27th of… Read full post »

Unlucky day  

Devo had started high school that fall and had everything going for her. She maintained the same relationships throughout grade school and junior high. The same comrades followed her to Spring High. She had three friends whi have stayed with her throughout.  Shae,… Read full post »

If you were faced with such an awful truth about yourself, wouldn't it just make sense to lie?                             annonymous  

Tell me these… Read full post »

Relax...Just another pin prick...there'll be no more AAAAAHHHHHhhhhhh.....

Willie insisted I quit my job because she felt my boss was far too familiar with me. Not to worry, I found work immediately, with yet another female boss. This would be one of many jobs I would forfeit for her or… Read full post »

officially recognizing the WIKI blackout for reasonable internet legislation  Read full post »

About me

A chronology of a life misrepresented

It is not quite my one year anniversary of being on the internet. I was a late bloomer, me the IT person, felt nothing good could come of the International Super Highway, and I am still not convinced that I am wrong, since… Read full post »

A dream come true, how often do you say that? How often is it true? How often do you just wish it were true?

I was convinced. But truthfully, I have often been convinced and proven wrong.

I didn’t want to dice this relationship apart. So Willie wasn’t into housework.… Read full post »

For Waiting

  { The Music of “If It Seems Too Good To Be True” on YOUTUBE )

Mom and Marnie quickly left Spring Texas. But not without leaving their trademark oppression.

Willie and I did not miss a beat. We and I were in the honeymoon stages of… Read full post »

AND the Ancient

Pretty much summarizes Marnie and Mae.

The Horizon Seems to Beckon me

Experience tells me the first day of the year was going to be cold and rainy since tonight the weather has been miserable.

Odd.

Two hours earlier it was starting off to be an unusual evening.

I received a call from a friend… Read full post »

The Music of “If It Seems Too Good To Be True” on YOUTUBE

August 1996

My new love,  Willie, moved into my home and blended into the fabric of her new family very quickly.

And then my mother and sister had dropped in unexpectedly.

From Kenosha.  Fifteen… Read full post »

I find it kind of sad

The dreams in which I’m dying

Are the best I’ve ever had

I spent my… Read full post »