His name is Daniel.

Daniel is fourteen years old.

Daniel is on his own.

Daniel built himself a boat out of downed trees and limbs that he found around his favorite spot by the river where he fished every day. Dan was able to tie the wood together with bailing wire that he… Read full post »

Yesterday at the market I was standing with a group of vendors and a Middle Eastern family came walking in. Immediately the vendors started making snide, crude, rude and hateful comments about the family. The dad looked like a typical man, the woman was completely covered except for her eyes… Read full post »

Herlogg was a relatively big man, well that's not really accurate.  Herlogg was a damn big man.  Herlogg's car was a very little convertible car that would only hold two people but in Herlogg's case, well it only held one, Herlogg. 

Herlogg would pour himself, literally… Read full post »

What did I learn today?

Well, if you are going to read a post that appears to be controversial take the time and read the comments before you comment.

I learned that real life is scary.  I think I’ll go back to writing about my make believe/… Read full post »

I have too many things going right in my life right now.  Scares the shit out of me.

I have always believed that life, this life, this time experiencing life is based upon lessons.  Lessons that need to be learned and lessons that were not learned in a/… Read full post »

I said girlfriend.  She said lover.  Yea, she’s right.  I’m just old.

Life never stops changing, never stops moving and doesn’t give us any warning.  Shit just happens and it’s great, good, bad or devastating.  I don&rs/… Read full post »

Albert told me to meet him and Marilyn at the pub.  Man I hadn’t been to the pub in a long, long time, well, at least it had been a long time on this plane of existence.

I was a little nervous, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to be… Read full post »

I sat under the waterfall and let it wash away all this ridiculous filth.  The waterfall is in my mind but that doesn’t mean it is less genuine, less considerable.

How did we all become so wrapped in ourselves like a blanket that suffocates?  How did the simple/… Read full post »

Got nothin’ to say today, no I got nothin’ to say and nothin to do except sit here and think about what is going on with me and you.

Cloudy day, forty-seven degrees and there’s a breeze.  The frozen food guy stops and I see his big yellow/… Read full post »

Markus Millman came strolling down the street as he did every day at noon.  Markus Millman was headed for Aunt Betties bar and grill where he would get his two bottles of Burger Beer and a hamburger and chili.  He would soak the hamburger and drown the chili in/… Read full post »

I could hear the voice.  It was like a breeze that was gently flowing through the tops of trees and brushing against me.  The breath was a sweet angel’s breath and the words weren’t words that I was familiar with but the feelings that the words gave me/… Read full post »

The conundrum is that there is no conundrum.  There is no reason for feeling down, anxious, depressed, or bored but those things seem to creep in like unwanted visitors, usually relatives where you can’t go, “Hey!  Not now people!”

Everyone just talks… Read full post »

Your body is like an oasis to me. I become lost in in the lush foliage. I can feel the heat that warms every inch of me. I can taste the life giving nourishment of your infinite stream of conscious enlightenment.

My mind is drifting to Timothy Leary… Read full post »

Everything makes me cry right now.  I read a post about a daughter’s love for her father and I am sobbing. 

My daughter called the other day to make sure I stayed in the loop to tell me that Maggie’s second husband Jacob was in the hospital with two… Read full post »

Maggie and I loved fishing the stream of life in the summer time when school was out.  The stream of life was a beautiful babbling stream that cut its way through the little town of Pleasant Valley. 

The fishing was alright, bass, crappie, blue gill and catfish but Maggie… Read full post »

She wrote, “Sorry I was filling candy molds.  He is an ass.”

She texted, “Stop it you r making me laugh”.

I texte… Read full post »

“Whew!  That was intense.  So, how long before we can do that again?” 

“Well let me think, probably in twenty minutes.”

“Are you serious?  So these things really work like they say.”

“Yep I told you it would wo… Read full post »

The Watcher of the sky’s and lands stands on his mountain and cannot stop the tears from falling to the ground; so many tears that the lands in the valley have become flooded and the peasants are moving to higher ground but The Watcher’s tears just will not cease.… Read full post »

I heard Tuck in the back yelling, “I just saw a tree eating a man while playing a violin!”  I looked at Aardvark Diggs in complete shock, “Did he just say what I think he said?”  Of course Aardvark Diggs was laughing uncontrollably and I found myself b/… Read full post »

Gather round children and I will tell you a tale about the little bastard who throws snowballs from the nose bleed seats in hell.

Life is such a wonderful, no a marvelous adventure from the moment we take that first gasp and cry until that last gasp and… Read full post »

Sometimes I wish I could just go to sleep.

Sailing into it where it’s safe and so deep.

Away from all this confusion and pain.

While letting death take its reign.

FUCK everyone who doesn’t understand how I feel.

Please take my shoes walk around if you dare.

Desert so dry, so dry.

Can feel my tongue bleeding?

Can feel the scorpions cracking and crunching beneath my boot?

There’s an angel sitting on a dirt bike laughing hysterically at my current predicament.

I pull my sawed off double barrel shotgun… Read full post »

Ok, here we go.  The lists below are the Editor’s Pick and Front Cover of Open Salon for Wednesday, November 4 2009. 

A couple points of clarification before I continue.  I just finished reading a post on Open Manhole where the woman posting her views was honest, f… Read full post »

Bob Jacobson came walking up to Bobby (Hippy Boy) Mack and hobbled into Hippy Boy’s booth.

Bob Jacobson had a deformed back that didn’t heal correctly from an injury so he walked with a very real twist and limp.  Bob Jacobson was one of those men who/… Read full post »

 The placebo did its job.  Everyone was convinced that they were cured of the make-believe disease that was supposed to annihilate the human race.  The mastermind behind the farce was now a hero and anyone who had tried to expose the madman, his family and his followers w… Read full post »