Candlewood, my childhood, always summer, floating and first loves and swim team ribbons, and the stone wall retainer, and that stairway down to the soft sand, and Sunnies nipping my toes, and splashing, and shrieking, and underwater handstands, and backward somersaults, and uncles throwing children high into the air, coming to surface with our long […]
Reeling In The Years
Are you reeling in the years? Stowing away the time? I sure am. I’ve been stowing a lot lately. And I don’t like it one bit. Aging beyond recognition is my current personal crisis. I’m meandering across that bridge between my younger years and old age trying in vain to squeeze a few last drops of youthful energy from my achy body […]
The Next, Good, Right, Honest Thing
I was on the elliptical machine at my health club the other day, working the ole glutes. I attempted to listen to music and skim through a magazine between some heavy huffing and puffing. God forbid I try to do just one thing at a time. Anyway, jumping out from one of the glossy pages […]