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Will this ever be over? I guess, on some level, it has to end, right? At least common sense tells me so. The Spanish Flu ended. The yellow fever epidemic ended. Pretty much every other epidemic/pandemic/etc. has ended. Well, unless you call cancer an epidemic, which I think you could. It affects so many people … Continue reading digging in the dirt

The last time I saw my father he was getting a taxi to pick up his car from one of numerous impound lots. He offered to give me a ride there, but that wasn’t my destination. That was six years ago. I’ve talked to him several times on the phone since then, mostly because I … Continue reading A Sort of Nostalgia

Author bucket list item achieved: I had my first book reading on Saturday, and I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect. Sure, I had been to dozens of them, where someone else sat or stood in the front of the room, reading their work to us, the enraptured audience. So, in that way I guess … Continue reading a book reading

If this is the last time for trivialities, then let me know Cover me in couched cliches So I can reap what I’ve sown Clear my cluttered schedule of everything I’ve owned Pack me in a battered case Leave me to my misery because that’s how I’ve grown in this gathering twilight I’ve saved up … Continue reading Baggage