Christmas With No Presents |
"So, we're not buying presents this year," Mom tells me."Okay," I reply. No big deal. I just want to see my family. I imagine us lounging about and talking, tearing peices off of Dad's famous ham, cra...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:00:00 GMT |
Evolution Revolution |
I remember that morning. It was beautiful and sunny. I went to my Persuasive Writing class early and then headed to the gym. I had my earphones in, assaulting my brain with blaring f...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:55:00 GMT |
Twitchy |
So, I've been glued to my computer for hours, scouring employment oppurtunities and skimming the web. I take my hand off the mouse and my pointer finger starts jumping and twitching on its ...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:40:00 GMT |
LTCF |
I found the following in an old notebook. It actually happened around 97 or 98 while I worked at a nursing home in Covington. I was twenty one or twenty two, and it changed me irrevocably,...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:02:00 GMT |
La Isla Bonita |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvmQElWC8-g
Remember this song?This reminds me of living in Eugene, OR... listening to my Madonna record on a Fisher Price record player.
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:43:00 GMT |
Spencers Butte |
I'm going to die.
I can't breathe and my muscles are hot, tingling, liquid, threatening to collapse and send me tumbling painfully down the long trail behind. Ahead of me I can see my brother an...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:39:00 GMT |
Haiku |
It is merely gas
A perfectly natural
Reaction to beans
Long, gray, wet Friday
When five o’clock rolls around
I’ll unleash the hounds
Saw a shooting star
In...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:38:00 GMT |
My Neice Is Born |
When the phone rang at four in the afternoon on a Tuesday, I knew. Even though it was about two weeks until the due date, I felt it with the odd certainty of my completely useless premonitions.&...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:21:00 GMT |
The November Picture |
During my early childhood, my family lived in Oregon. We were just about dead center, between mountains to the East, and the perpetually chilled Pacific Coast to the West. Oregon is breath...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:21:00 GMT |
I had a dream... |
I had dream the other night. Most of the time, my dreams are shadows and blurs. I have some vague sense of what's going to happen, like I'm watching a film I saw a long time ago, and my me...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:02:00 GMT |
