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Spring Equinox 1956

When I first came to, it felt as though I had landed on my back. I had very limited control of my body and could not sit up. When I tried to elevate myself in some way, my arms and legs failed to cooperate with the intention to rise. I desired to turn sideways, and face something other than the darkness which confronted me from above. I could only rotate my head and face the shadowy series of vertical bars to either side of me.

The room was large and motionless except for t… Continue

Momma Drama 101

I’m sure I had them before my first memory of them. Pancakes. It’s just that certain recollections are evoked by affiliate circumstances that surround the point of recall. Pancakes. I was four years old, which also means that Dwight Eisenhower must have been president of the USA. This story really isn’t about him. He only figures in as a reference to the chronological time line for which I’ve been dealing with my sensate addiction. Food. Let me be clear, this story is about panc… Continue

Upon a nail on the utility room wall hangs a leather baseball glove. It has been there for nearly two decades, but only now, I notice the fixed curvature of rawhide awaiting my attention. Within the catchers mitt is a leather outline of the tiny boy hand that caught balls with this glove. It seems like a moment’s flash of time when my sons and their stampede of neighborhood friends were young enough to play their summers away. In a short while, they all turned into teenagers and left our homes,… Continue

The following, "Time and Money", is a piece from a larger collection of thoughts, notes, and observations I've taken during my first 54 years on Earth entitled, "54 Karat Reflections".


Time and money are often linked with a singular understanding that one is the other. I contend that the value of time is exponentially greater than money on any given day. Time burns like fire. Once it is spent it has no resale value and cannot be repurchased at any price. Though we long for it to extend itself,… Continue