Last night, restless and feeling like a badger stuck in a leg trap, I sought refuge from my mind under a neon tree. This neon tree is planted at a place called The Park Tavern, my local bar. The old wood paneling and smell of…
During the summer of 2015 dead people were everywhere. They could be found in the news, in my family and even in my dreams. It was just one of those summers where folks were starting their new lives in marriage, but others were taking their…
My underwear, comforter and other random articles of clothing are tumbling away in a dryer downstairs and I have to wait, wait, wait like a dog for his master. I can see the Lord of this life, high up in the clouds, laugh at my…
I don’t like the collision of syllables within words like “wrong” or “loser” or “failure”. But yet they seem to be near impossible to avoid. As a modern American those honest words of assessment are a dirty dirty language. And they are my curse…
The final basketball game of my high school career did not go as planned. When the final buzzer let out, so did the air in my lungs; I was desperate, crushed, and lost. My world hinged on that goddamn orange ball and that sense of…
Well, with week two of Soburary in the books, I sense the altitude change here at the second base camp. I am half way up some imaginary mountain of “accomplishment” and clouds are still covering my destination. I can’t see the end but I know…
It’s been damn near a decade since I first tried the nectar of the gods, and since then, I have been drunk the whole time. That maybe a slight exaggeration, because not every second of the last ten years has been consumed by the consumption…
