Thirty Seconds

This is all happening at once isn’t it?  This life we have here on earth isn’t unfolding…it’s all happening in a single moment. I’ll try to explain what I mean but may not pull it off.  I was looking at my gut…which I don’t like very much.  It’s not completely out of hand but a [...]

I’m sitting next to Laura’s grave site…writing on this beautiful, balmy, billowy Sunday afternoon.  I’m sort of proud of her spot because it was one of the first decisions I made by myself after she was gone and I know she’d approve.  It’s under the canopy of a majestic oak tree so it’s almost romantic [...]

[This is poorly written.  I can do better...but not right now.  I stand by the illustration though.] It’s Laura’s birthday today.  She would have been 42.  It’s the first time we “celebrated” it without her.  It was strange…and sad…and just another day all rolled into one.  I’m not even sure how to describe it so [...]

We are born…we blink…and we are dying.  In between we love and hate…laugh and cry…win and lose…give and take…break and grow…stand up and fall down…know happiness and sadness…we are brave and weak…we take chances…but not enough of them it seems. Some of us have children…and we’ve known them forever.  Some of us have children…and will [...]

It’s up to me isn’t it?  This life and the way I live it.  It’s entirely up to me what I do with it.  If I don’t like something I can try to change it…or not.  There is no in between.  I’m either moving in the directions of my dreams or I’m staying put. Changes [...]

I see something now that I didn’t before and I hope I say it right.  We…people…freak out when our story doesn’t go the way we want it to.  Our inner child kicks and screams and yells, “It’s not fair!” when the inevitable twist in the road shows up.  Sometimes it’s more like a sink hole [...]