Deaf Ears
As they say, it’s got to get worse before it can get better. (Remind me. Who the fuck is the ‘they’ who said that. I’d like a word with them and those choice mots would be sharp and scolding.) As is typical of Monday, today was a shit storm of a day. (Can you tell […]
Did I mention that I hate cats?
So resort week is officially over and the whole relaxation thing but a memory. No matter how hard I try to vacation, how completely I shake free of the anxiety and the pet hair and the mundane worries of the day to day, somehow all these things catch right back up with me upon return. […]
Someone else’s tragedy
An ambulance, an emergency response vehicle and a state police car in the driveway- sure signs that there’s trouble at the neighbor’s. A gurney is lifted. The EMTs give it a heave-ho and it is gone from sight. I can’t be certain who belonged to the body on the stretcher. Was it a man, a […]
Masquerade
Yesterday, when wandering the cramped aisles of our local costume store, I decided that I must be a big fat loser. We arrived at Joker’s Wild to gather a few last minute items. We needed a furry pelt or some other suitable body wear for the monster O is planning to be and some green […]
Ode to Tallulah
To my copper penny companion
The canine sprite, lithe and lean
Leaving brown patches of urine
In the dry grass of Autumn,
You of the mountain goat grace
And drooling enthusiasms
For such things as garbage can spelunking
And excavating large holes in the perennial bed
Are at once pure happiness and the source of my despair.
There are few that are forgiven for […]


