Today is the ten year anniversary of the death of my daughter. Evey year I know its coming, but it still hits me like a hammer blow to the stomach. I would be lying if I didn’t say that it has gotten […]
So my youngest son is the athlete of the family. He does soccer and karate and is hyper competitive in both. Yesterday he got his first taste of sparring…and I caught some of it on video. He’s barely six and smaller than […]
For the last month or so I have been editing and re-writing a story I had written last month. I wrote it with the intention of submitting it for publication. Tonight I finished my last re-write. I went to the publication’s website […]
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“At my feet, her headless body jerked with spasms. It seemed to be trying to sit up. The legs shook and the arms flailed as blood spurted from the neck. The red liquid splashed onto my hands and my feet. then the body gave out […]
So this morning I get up and head downstairs. Coffee and raisin bran round out my wake up routine before I sit down to do some writing. I work at it for about 30 minutes then I start to feel pain shooting […]
This month has been a rough one writing wise. I am behind my goal curve and though I have time to make up the difference I have a hard time imagining my doing so. I think I’m a little burned out from […]
This entry is part 10 of 81 in the series Reviews
“Liz’s real problemis living in the dorm. What they call ‘the Res.” It’s not the same as living with family, even hers, which is big by today’s standards. You can shut the door on brothers. All of the other students. Strangers to […]
Ten years ago my wife gave birth to my little girl. The labor had been long and uncomfortable for my wife and ended in a C-Section ultimately. I was in the operating room holding stroking my wife’s hair and speaking words of […]
It is July 5th. Six years ago my youngest son Connor was born. We had planned a C-Section for this day, but sitting in the fields watching the fireworks in Lebanon, Oregon we knew that he was coming on the 5th whether […]
I tried to write something witty today…and failed. I tried to write something deep and meaningful…and failed. I looked at the screen and felt crushed by my inability to put more than a handful of words together. I want to say something, […]