I 'm currently focusing on a larger project, so here's a poem instead of a short story, an ode to my very favorite bedtime snack. Open...

A friend and I did a poetry challenge a few months back where we each wrote a poem once a day. Due to time constraints and my inability...

How frequently you have been my lot, oh snot. My shelves crammed with vitamins Zinc, C, and D, This oozy nose is not a state that I have...

I had a plan for the week before Easter. I envisioned cheerfully dying Easter eggs, making cupcakes for neighbors, cooking together in...

This is not a particularly original thought. But, original or not, it’s what I’ve been thinking. Because the libraries have been closed...

Warning! I am not a poet! But I wanted to make my contribution to the flood of pandemic-inspired art, and I just couldn’t explain what...

Every now and then I run across a stranger so uniquely themselves that I feel a compulsion to sketch them out in sentences and...

Last week I sat in a metal cylinder with a little over a hundred other people. After a brief wait and some preliminary safety...

After breakfast, my daughter frequently goes to the door, points at it, and says, “Gocks!” By this she means she thinks we should go sit...

Last week I wrote a short story (you can read it here or you can just scroll down a few paragraphs). I had several people tell me it was...

There is a gang of eight roosters who live in my neighborhood. I was out running one day, just enjoying the day and the ground under my...

This is a blog about normal things. I take the ordinary parts of life for granted. Sunrise, sunset and all the natural functions of the...