Duke
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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I cant believe you aren’t right there at the other end of the text stream. I waited this morning, watching the Sunday Morning News Shows, for your name and number to ghost up on the upper right c...
Heartbroken in General
I am heartbroken and numb. Goddamn it Sandy.
Heartbroken in General
I am heartbroken and numb. Goddamn it Sandy.
San Francisco Mabel Joy in General
I got up this morning intending to take a long walk. But it was cold. And I was too lazy to put on sweats. Okay. “Cold” needs a qualifier. All summer long I wear an Under Armour tank and sh...
Me and Dad in General
Me and Dad. The last two of a long line of career warriors. My son broke the run, some thousand years in the making.
ID It’s Sunday morning. I have a couple of hours to waste, and the news isn’t all that interesting. Up to ‘Salem’s Lot for the annual August family cookout. I’m not even on the hook for anyth...
ID It’s Sunday morning. I have a couple of hours to waste, and the news isn’t all that interesting. Up to ‘Salem’s Lot for the annual August family cookout. I’m not even on the hook for anyth...
My love, It is past my birthday now. I have made it to 57. In my teens and early twenties I really didn’t think I would see the end of my forties. We think we choose a path until we find our s...
Trip Around the Sun in General
Trip Around the Sun Holy shit Martina has beautiful eyes! I started the day doing what I do this time of year. Watered the plants. Wondered when I should mow the lawn. I have a comfortable rh...
Twenty years ago I was in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Somewhere between Sandog and Hawaii. The early summer I had spent the weekends in the BOQ at the Amphib base on North Island. No wa...
Twenty years ago I was in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Somewhere between Sandog and Hawaii. The early summer I had spent the weekends in the BOQ at the Amphib base on North Island. No wa...
I'm So Getting a D on this. in General
My task here and now is to describe the author’s use of craft elements. My paired novels are Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The most obvious craft of the two nov...
Boner Pills in General
I was driving home from the beach yesterday afternoon, listening to the radio. During the commercial break the DJ decided to go off script on one of the male enhancement products he was shilling...
Strangest thing about memories. In 1997 I was working in the Electronic Warfare Coordination Cell (EWCC) at the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) at Dal Molin, Vicenza Italy during the Bosni...
Caretaker 4 Redux in General
I got feedback from my class on Caretaker 4. Some minor critiques on language and awkwardness. Nothing I wasn’t expecting. I pounded that story out in a few hours and only edited it once. Wha...
Louder Than Ever in General
Louder Than Ever You were there in the front seat Windows down, we were burnin’ It was just like a movie scene Those dashboard lights and your pale blue eyes Cutting through me… It is cool, fogg...
100 Years _ in General
I’m fifteen for a moment Caught in between ten and twenty And I’m just dreaming Counting the ways to where you are At fifteen I was in love, or rather a fifteen version of infatuation. Cathy. ...
Caretaker IV in The Fiction
This was the writing sample that got me into the MFA program. God help us all. Caretaker IV I Celia, I came out of cryosleep today. It was a lot uglier than I had been led to believe while in t...
Late The air is fragrant here in mid coast Maine this time of year. I’d like to say it reminds me of my childhood, but the hiccupy way my life worked out I was barely here. Born here. Likely t...
Boots Boots Boots in General
Boots Boots Boots Interesting conversation on an AOCS group regarding SERE school. We were given strict orders that we were never to talk about anything that happened there. In hindsight it was...
Dante’s Prayer in General
Friday I was awake at 230am. By 300am I was out of bed. Ungraceful, tumbling thoughts bounced around in my brain. They went all the way from the beginning until the end. But the middle, oh t...
It isn’t a surprise to me but I was accepted into the MFA program. I grunted out an eight page short story as a writing sample. The primary reason I would even apply is I am being mercenary. ...
Days Are Numbers in General
I first heard this song about the time I turned 20. I had been on my own since 17. And I never seemed to stop moving. Every time I went home I was turning around and leaving. I’m thankful tha...
California Sun in General
Just three days and I’m missing you more than I thought I would i missing you more than I like to say I’m hanging on a hope swinging from a rope It’s all a shame My biggest mistake was letting y...
The Age of Adeline in General
The Age of Adeline I just watched that movie again. It breaks my heart every time. I don’t know why Hollywood is trying so hard to make it go away, for a five year old movie it should be all ov...
