it's been some time since I've written here. I suppose it's a combination of reasons: - the toddler in my life - the move across the...

"O, woe is me T'have seen what I have seen, see what I see!" - Shakespeare (Hamlet) The Chinese treat the common cold with Ma Huang, a...

the birds are chirping outside my car window but other than that, the silence is like a blanket over me. I embrace it, thinking of the...

his eyes pierce me like two additional claws he's grown through evolution and survival of the fittest in this house with the two...

his Mercedes' license plate read: "XFRM BOY" so I pictured him as a strapping young man with overalls stretched across an autumn orange...

It is finally done! Well, sort of. I have finished writing Reintegration! Finally, after years. After starting and scrapping seventeen...

When I originally thought about taking one of my last two weeks of parental leave, I envisioned a full seven days of complete relaxation....

I haven’t done an update on my novel in some time. Since the last post about Reintegration we have been doing our best to take care of a...

Breathe in. Do you smell that? That odor in the air. It’s a rotten, disturbing scent floating around in the culture. It reminds me of...

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a man with superpowers, a closet full of skeletons, a chest constricted by anxieties...

The streets are avenues of eyeballs, dips, dives and detours divert my path, a Ford Focus halfway out the driveway in front of me, the...

your mother is concerned as to why the torrent of poems written about you have halted. she asked if I still love my family, leading me...

the mylar balloon was tied to power lines, bobbing up and down like a buoy playing with the tension of a metaphor in a poem and a...

it was a good morning dishes with smeared ketchup residue and pans united with fried egg piled up in the sink flakes of sesame sunflower...

Hey you! Look at what I see and do! You look at me and I look at you! I go here and you go there. Whose life is better? I bet we can...

Well, Spider-Man has done it again. The recent news of Marvel losing the rights to the character has left many faithful fans distraught....

Nostalgia bleeds through the screen as The Lion King remake plays before me. The CGI is astounding and the story still holds strong. For...

I hate to admit it. The shame and guilt eat at me. But there’s no way around it, I’m a fan of The Bachelorette. Not only that, I’m a fan...

I walked into Changing Spirits Rehabilitation Center carrying two Trader Joe’s brown paper bags full of my used clothes, a pack of...