stories

Ever wonder if our whole modern urban lifestyle is really just quarterlife? Like we're maybe so focused on getting to the next goal, the next day, the next paycheck, whatever, that we merely skim the surface of now? Kinda like paying full price for the best seats in the theater...then watching the show through a foggy windsheld and earmuffs. OK, [...]

Maybe you could find someone who'd leave a holiday dog show in a bad mood, but it'd be tough. Wet-dog smell has taken up permanent residence in my nostrils (gazillions of dogs gathering in the rainy Northwest? c'maaaan!) and my brain has pretty much OD'd on cute, silly, cuddly, fluffy, adorable, funny... It was raining dogs and dogs outside; the wet-dog [...]

"After you, dear!" she grinned, opening the door with a flourish. Her companions still struggled to emerge from a massive blue Caddie handicap-parked in front of the diner, so she was holding the door for everyone else while she awaited them. The lady was plump, with stick-straight silver hair in a pixie cut. She rattled the Caddie's keys in one [...]

There's a fascinating little video making the rounds right now, on the relationships of 3, 6, and 9 to circles, the universe, nothing, and, well, everything: https://youtu.be/inWnhZp_A-M Reminded me of Professor Tranh and his drangles. And, of course, the story. I was ALL about words when I was a kid. Words made stories, and I was a storyteller, so it [...]

“Nice rose tattoo,” I said. Not THAT rose tattoo, as I’m not a huge fan of Tennessee Williams.* No, this was an enormous polychrome rose covering the whole of her inside forearm, half-hidden by the breakfast menu she proffered with a smile. […]