Category Archives: Essays

Time In a Bottle

Time In a Bottle “If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I’d like to do Is to save every day till eternity passes away Just to spend them with you…” (Jim Croce) The other day my youngest son sent me a picture of my granddaughter taking a hike with him in an beautiful… Read More »

Last Walk on the Beach

Last Walk on the Beach The wind, salty and cool, rushed past me, stinging my face and singing to me its ancient song – but not a lullaby, more like a symphony. I heard it and it was compelling. I reached out to you but you had gone and I looked up in the mist and saw you walking… Read More »

An Unkindness of Ravens

An Unkindess of Ravens October crept in while I slept. It painted the sky a sad winter gray as if to warn me, or taunt me, that winter is approaching fast. I look out my kitchen window, this cold, gray October morning, and see a flock of birds – ravens actually – circling around above the woods behind… Read More »

Reflections on a Late Summer Morning

Reflections on a Late Summer Morning It is with bittersweet countenance that I write this. A pale and fragile veil of autumn lingers creeps in quietly on this late summer morning. Those warm, humid mornings of just a few weeks ago have gone and have been replaced by some mysterious early harbinger of fall – a wisp of… Read More »

Don’t Be Jealous

Don’t Be Jealous Well howdy there folks. This is just brief blog about my scrumptious day. I live such an interesting life. I don’t want any of you to feel that you have to keep up with me. Some of you reading this may feel your life pales compared to mine so I’m going to give you but… Read More »

September

September September is a month that makes me think more about the passing of time and of the hour of my life than any other. Assuming I will live to be 80 -about average for men in the USA –  each hour on the clock of life is about 3.5 years. So on my clock of life it’s… Read More »