randolph ryeder

My People

I remember once my grandmother asked of my then new lady friend ( Alas she is still a lady and a friend but not a lady friend - the worldly wise will understand) ’What are her people like?&rsquo...
Posted by randolph ryeder on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:01:00 PST

embarassing men

I had the misfortune,the other night, to visit an acoustic folk club. I say club, it was a room above a public bar. It has become quite common place these days for men to be demeaned in the media and...
Posted by randolph ryeder on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:07:00 PST

hands

Today my therapist told me that it was not customary to hold her hand during the session. I know our relationship is merely professional but never the less I felt rejected. At the bus stop a group of ...
Posted by randolph ryeder on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:59:00 PST

Holiday Romance

Ah Paris! The beauty, the culture, such were my thoughts as I strolled down the Rue St Denis, famous for it's brothels and sex shops. As I stopped for a moment to take in the scene I was approached by...
Posted by randolph ryeder on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:50:00 PST

monkey

I saw today in the paper that a monkey had been found an English garden. No one knows where it is from, how it got there. I wondered how many of us feel this way, like that monkey, far from home. He w...
Posted by randolph ryeder on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:01:00 PST

Brandy

Today my nieghbour told me that I was 'intense' What, I wondered, could this mean? Does she not understand the desperate,lonely nature of the human condition? I told her she was a 'fool' and the shut ...
Posted by randolph ryeder on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 04:49:00 PST

Tree House

Today I am feeling pensive.My woman is tormenting my mind and the children in the street repeatedly sing the refrain from a tiresom popular song. The hoops with which they play bang against my door an...
Posted by randolph ryeder on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:22:00 PST