RECORDING MOMENTS IN TIME

Reporters seek to report news, create flashy stories, headlines offered to amaze their audience. Seeking controversy at a superficial...

As weeks dribble by a few, usually unattached males, in various stages of rags, line up, all in need of what we have. What we will share...

He lied. Clueless, he was but true, thanks to alcohol. Evidence abundant. The lesson learned that next morning: Blood thicker than water....

Confronting fear. My uncle was visiting one evening when the lights in the neighborhood flickered out, and dad was at work having been...

I like sleep. Sleeping or just laying in bed, or on the couch, watching TV. Over a lifetime would say I’m a morning person, but the older...

The value of life measurable, acknowledged but never spoken, hidden, sad to say. Human capital, tangible, today a laborer is alive, a...

Everyone, growing up, has a “theme song” a song whose words connect to their innermost being. Defines them. One song that is embedded in...

Ten… nine… eight… seven… six… five… four… three… two… one… Happy New Year’s… someone somewhere is cheering.., someone somewhere tipsy…,...

I caught the German measles (or three-day measles, Rubella) and spent a week confined to my bed with a do-not-scratch mandate. Sponge...

Awaken by the warmth of the sun, no rain, cool for now. I could hear movement nearby and felt the whispers. I laid quietly, eyes closed,...