Category Archives: Essays

Breakfast at Epiphanies

I lost my job. I lost my family. I lost my home. I lost everything. Last year was not a good year. In fact the last couple of years haven’t been so hot. I’m doing the best I can. Living on the streets of Memphis isn’t easy any time – but it’s really tough in winter. It’s January… Read More »

Quantum English

Someone once said that if you use bad grammar it’s kind of like having bad breath – you can say all sorts of intelligent things but no one is going to take you seriously. You can gargle and chew gum for your breath, but if you’re grammatically illiterate, until now there was no easy solution. Luckily for you,… Read More »

In Between

Imagine you are a wave on the ocean, and you’re born of the salt and the wind. As you are born you see nothing but the blue of the sea and an endless journey before you. You are small and insignificant – there are mightier waves all around you. You are young and light, aqua and translucent. You… Read More »

Snowflakes

Imagine you are snowflake and you are born in a high cloud on a bleak and bitter winter day. And for the longest time, you’re borne and travel on the lofty and majestic winds of the sky, always surrounded by other snowflakes, all alike and all different and all traveling together, to the same and different destinations. You… Read More »

The Pharmer in The Dell – Rewind

The Pharmer in The Dell – Rewind *** Please read the important notice at the end of this article; it will explain why so many links have been remove and/or do not work) (This article was originally written in 2005. The reason we’re republishing it will become obvious when you read the end of this article. Little has… Read More »

Thunderstorm

Today is too hot, too humid, too strange, too oppressive. Only the tropical can savor this wet , hot air and be happy. Even the children are languid. The subtle breeze that brought this summer is gone. Misty fields of spring are now overgrown with summer, its lushness of spreading crops, weeds, and strange dusty green things a… Read More »