Part 1: Slipping into my Senior Years in Vans™ aka “On the Road to I Don’t Give a Fuck”[1] April 8, 2015 I find myself here at the precipice of late middle age (44), where I am at moments,…
Joy
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam I am a curiosity here; an oddity for sure – a rare bird, a wild animal, the most foreign of foreigners. People stop and stare and tap their friends and their children so that…
Some people mistake kindness for weakness; this miscalculation can be a deadly fallacy in the animal kingdom. Why have we been conditioned to look upon those who are kind, compassionate and vulnerable as weak? It could not be further…
Tickle my soul Make me laugh from the inside out Be the heart of my heart Leave no room for doubt Of how much you accept and love Every version of yourself The only commitment required Is to maintain…
I’m losing my eyesight But have a clarity of vision like never before. I’ve lost the ability to make babies But I meet my children every day in the people I see and speak with for I give them…
A Fishy Platform Mr. Donald Man O’ War was the governor of the Western Reef which was an elected position. Although he had position, wealth, power; was well-traveled and had many fish vying for his romantic attention, his language…
Fear does not seem strong enough a word to describe the widespread yet subversive, intense and prolific paranoia that lives in most of us. We unwittingly spread the poison, the highly contagious and deadly virus that lives in our…