Less Than Three Weeks Until Christmas Last night, late, when the house was quiet and the only sound was the winter wind whipping the lifeless trees, I watched the flame of a single candle flicker and thought about what Christmas meant to me. I looked out the window and saw a winter scene painted by an unseen… Read More »
The Great Equalizer As winter approaches I watch the dying things… the colorless flower beds, the brittle skeletons of trees that add a melancholy touch to the browning landscape, and listen to the silence once filled by the buzzing of summer’s tiny life, As winter approaches, I see death all around me and I’m reminded that death… Read More »
Autumn Rain It’s not supposed to be this way—the rain I mean. The sullen, gray skies belong to winter, not now, not here, not in the middle of Autumn. The autumn rain is cold and steady. The day is morose and dark. Not a sad day but a melancholy mood could set in if I were not… Read More »
The Things of the Night During the night, in those quiet hours when most of the world is sleeping, you lie awake and things of the night become distorted and amplified. The faucet that drips drips drips drops during the day goes unnoticed – but in the quiet of the night, it can become a disturbing, even… Read More »
An Ode to Ketchup My grandfather taught me a lot of things, and most of the things he taught me have stuck with me my whole life — like my love of ketchup. I can remember going on vacation with my grandparents and watching Grandpa smother fried eggs and hash brown potatoes in ketchup in restaurants from… Read More »
Leave the Candle Burning – Reprise He left the candle burning, just as she had asked him to do. Though it had been seven years since she went away, every evening at nightfall he would light a candle. Every night while he tried to sleep through his pain and his loneliness, the candle flickered silently casting… Read More »