
I haven't been blogging, but I've spent plenty of time online. My classes are on Blackboard, and now I have students upload all their work, minus a few homework assignments or physical projects that need all 5 senses to evaluate. I thought it would m...

13 years. Feels like yesterday. Everyday I remember. I'm never getting over it. That's fine. Maybe it makes me a better person. My heart is a gaping hole. You can get used to dark distances. Holes have bottoms. When I fall into the chasm, a lifetime...

Ever since I moved to Philadelphia, I've had problems with my eldest siblings, particular my sister who lives here. I have now lived here for almost 10 years. My son barely remembers Chicago, and I see no possibility of leaving here, especially as he...

"And I only am escaped alone to tell thee." -- Job Call me Toilet. Broke and bored, I joined Captain Ahab's crew. We hunted the white whale. Damn thing tossed his cookies all over the deck. Starbuck thought Ahab had serious thrill issues. S...

Election Day—vote for love! You love nobody. You love looking like you love others. You’re the President of false gurus, fake teachings—nothing about you is real except your need to convey that you are Love Incarnate. You have your disciples. T...

I want to try this 55 word story form suggested by G-Man. Here goes: Sofia died. My cousin. I saw her last when I was 17 in a hospital. room. She was uncomfortably gentle as she invited me to California. She struggled with cocaine. A broke...

I just want everyone to know that there is a blogger named BBC who likes to hassle people by putting obnoxious comments on other people's blogs and attacking them because as he claims: "I'm an angry man, I see what is really happening on this rock an...