A Military Coup I make the choice daily to be the Queen of “my castle” aka my feelings, my heart and my mind. It requires great effort because there are lots of defensive soldiers who guard my castle. I…
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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,…
The greater-racket tailed drongo sits on a crisscross of what were once-upon-a-time most likely painstakingly placed electrical wires. I say painstakingly because I’ve had the honor of observing Thai and Burmese laborers working with Zen-like focus on almost a…
Wendell the Bunny lives on an island in Thailand which is home to many of the universe’s creatures however not ordinarily the home of the Eastern Cottontail Rabbit which is native to North America. The how of Wendell…
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…
I originally wrote this on November 15, 2015, the day after there had been a terrorist attack in Paris. There have been other similar attacks in France and elsewhere in the world since the time I originally wrote this and…
Where is the relief? It comes in the tiniest of ripples Whereas the pain Presents itself in the greatest of tidal waves Gigantic, monster tsunami waves And you welcome them with open arms They are familiar There is comfort…
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…
I am five years old and on a beach holiday with my parents and my brother who is two years my junior. I open my eyes to bright sunlight and I just know it is going to be the…
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…