My cough has been horrific, convulsive, gagging, choking and relentless. For the last ten days I have been suffering with a ...well, to call this  a "cold" would be to insult it. it's more like a dry drowning only it's not really all that dry. A torrent/… Read full post »

Six haikus inspired by pests, internal and external

I  cough ferociously

the cats scramble for their lives

claws sharper than wits

Over the counter

another way of saying

not too effective

Weasel kills a sock

she brings it to me chirping

heart warmer than… Read full post »

American bittersweet, celastrus scandens  is  a sinuous, snaky, woody vine that grows mostly East of the Mississippi from new England to Tennessee. It has frightening vigor, growing several inches in a day during the Summer, Its tendrils wrapping around each other givin… Read full post »

Wessagusset, The Other Colony

or

Pilgrim's Regress

A true bloodcurdling tale of stupidity, greed, and murder

Here's a story about early America that you don't hear very often, In fact, you probably have never heard it at all. It involves a settlement contemporary with/… Read full post »

when push matches pull

everything about nothing

will at last be known

I met someone who studies water, not what's in the water, not drops, waves, streams, or clouds but the molecule itself. Yes that one, the one you know. Is there still something to know about this? Yes,… Read full post »