I was once a white-knuckled flyer, but I recovered from that a long time ago. These days I am a frequent flyer on multiple airlines with both domestic and international mileage on my accounts.  These days I am a cool customer.

In contrast, the woman beside me is… Read full post »

Reader's Note:  "The Hunchback and the Boy" is a bookmark from 2001.  Please see "Posted Notes" for the complete directory.   

She wanted to see Paris, so I took her to Paris.  

We had a fabulous time.  We had eight days to see and do as m/… Read full post »

Reader's Note: This story is preceded by "The Rodeo Clown - Part One" and "Freakish - Part Two"  and "I Feed the Fire - Part Three"  

“Angel…when we were growing up, your father was seven years behind me.   He was so young that we might/… Read full post »

To me, she was a movie star and a wet dream all rolled into one.  She had this million dollar smile that seemed to light up the classroom day after day.  I would have done anything to have her turn that smile my way.   Unfortunately, she never gave me a/… Read full post »

Friends extend encouragement and help set expectations.  This is a good thing. 

We traveled on a Greyhound bus for hours.  By the time we’d left the school, it was dark.  This meant that we had to spend the entire evening on the bus and n/… Read full post »

The five of them were in their usual place this Tuesday afternoon.  They had finished eating long ago and now they were once again solving the problems of the world… and flirting with Flo.  Flo had been their waitress now for as long as she worked at the bistro./… Read full post »

I loved her so much, that after she passed away, I had to go out and find one just like her.  It's true that her successor was much brighter than my first love... but inside they were just the same.  

 Her successor was able… Read full post »

I can't wait any longer.

Lucy, I have been hopelessly in love with you from the beginning.  When the big round head kid first brought me home, and began an endless series of ridiculous attempts to get me to conform to the house regimen, I put up with him... but … Read full post »

Mizar was Karma’s favorite star.  Zeta Ursa Majoris is actually a multiple star system, but I never knew that until after she was gone.  To her, the crook in the handle of The Big Dipper was simply... Mizar.   The last time we lay on the roof of the/… Read full post »

When I first met her, she was attending a specialized school renowned throughout the fashion industry.    When she later became my first wife, she was already a successful fashion designer, and one of the most stylish people that I had ever met.   That was probably a/… Read full post »

The pillows enclosed in the decorative pillow shams that came with my comforter, are piled on one side of my King size bed when I wake up.  There is an assortment of throw pillows and the other down pillow casually tossed/… Read full post »

You may have seen this already, because there is a good chance that it is circulating around the Internet rapidly.  If you have not seen them yet... please enjoy!  These are the most impressive high resolution pictures from the Inauguration Day that you are likely to find. 

A good fri… Read full post »

It is my nature to be protective of others.  Natural instincts that I have followed throughout my life… require me to support my friends, protect strangers at risk, and provide help and guidance wherever possible. This should be fairly straightforward and clear.  It is not.… Read full post »

I am writing to my blog again.  I actually created a previous post this morning as soon as I concluded a two hour video-conference call that began at 9 AM Eastern.  Our video-conferencing tools allow me to observe and host and participate in meetings right here/… Read full post »

I didn’t see the blood on my pillow at first. 

The awful, sinking realization that I had missed my plane... was slowly settling over me. (Eyes... following me)  It was my habit, from countless business trips, to set the alarm on my phone to wake me at/… Read full post »

words rife with despair

she... resolved and seeking change

his obsession fails Read full post »

We’re going to come and take you to church this Mother’s Day.   It will likely be crowded, but they will make room and make a fuss.  They always do.   

The pastor will see your wheel chair in the center aisle right next to Dad in the pew.&n… Read full post »

It makes me weak in the knees to hear Australian women say the word “cock.” I just love it. They say it with such extraordinary joy… as if surrendering to the wonderful possibilities of it all. 

I was so pleasantly amazed that I watched the woman beside me… Read full post »

Facebook discussions and ongoing activities have unearthed people and friends from my past that I haven’t thought about in years.   Such recollections have also rekindled long lost memories.  Some are wonderful memories of happy times, while others have dredge/… Read full post »

 It’s a full body blanket that I unknowingly pull up over my head. Unlike the blanket on my bed, it does not stymie my breathing or make me blind in a darkened room grown blacker.  It covers my body with joyful well being.

It’s the realization that I’d… Read full post »

She had served with him on the Board of Directors. He had become a friend. She didn’t know many Black men personally in her lifetime.  Oh, she had indirectly made acquaintances from time to time, either at work or through her first husband, or through friends of her chi/… Read full post »

The set-up for the evening was perfect.  He still had her scent in his nose when he left the house that night.

She had been feeling frisky. After all of these years they could read each other effortlessly.  When he’d remarked that he might “take out the/… Read full post »

Reader's Note:  This is the continuing story of "The Rodeo Clown."

Michelle Obama Medical Center

Washington DC 

Patient:  Ambo Parsons Jr.

Height:  6’ 2”       &nb… Read full post »

I will be tapering off my participation on OS shortly.  I will be traveling again and I expect to be a great deal busier with my day job. 

The intensity of blogging is a vicious, demanding  companion for me. 

Professionally, I provide sales and management trai… Read full post »

Dashed off quickly, and hot while the feelings (so elusive) are there, fresh and immediate, almost before I hang up the phone.

I am unaccustomed to such phone calls… the ones that come in at 11 PM to advise me that you will be working until 7… Read full post »