I found my Dad’s stubbornness particularly irksome one Friday night after partying with friends until the wee hours. Because of the bitter...

This is a good way to encourage young ladies to handle those creepy guys who try to pick them up! Girls can't resist Batman! Creat...

He comes home from work wearing his gray striped overalls covered with Vanadium dust. I think he is ...

The news says that Jimmy Dean, "Sausage King" has recently died. I'm sorry to hear it. I've always felt a connection to hi...

I once spent a day as my father (James Deane) reminisced about his boyhood memories of automobiles owned by his parents. So, we made a list....

Always seeking, my heart knows not what, wondering what's coming next a breath or two, heartbeats cry out to me, "get going, g...

Steroids save my life, stop the fantasies of giving up, prevent me from the anguish of pain return to me the skill of ambulation. ...

We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the w...

What is a poem? I still don’t know. In some ways, I don’t care. For me, it can be a phrasing of words touching something inside making...

Do you remember how your grandmother gardened? What about her grandmother before her? Or was gardening in her generation considered “un-lady...

Today, I drove into parking lot at my doctor's office which overlooks the cemetary. I've always thought it odd his office should be ...

Many times  I've looked across  the crowd you were there, eyes anticipating, smiling. I want to be held supported by you, caressed, k...

Covering the seed of my memories, she is buried at the bottom of my heart, where the blood has turned brown like dark rich humus; the bab...

My best friend Patrick came to visit me the night mumps had taken him away. I didn't understand the dream until Billy announced it...

I've written all my life in some form or another, not realizing there was something I could "do" with my writing for quite s...