Category Archives: Essays

The Old Man and the Dog

I see an old man walking slowly down the sidewalk with a small dog on a leash. The old man is hunched and barely able to walk. The small brown and white dog isn’t barking. He’s trying to walk as slowly as the old man holding the leash. They look like good friends. The old man is so… Read More »

The Angel of Mercy

Most of you know have known an angel in your lifetime. It might an angel of the Biblical kind, or a more material angel who seems to always be smiling and helping others. Then there are angels like me. The last few weeks I’ve dedicated myself to helping things in need. Or should I say helping things that… Read More »

Life Is Fair

So I go out to breakfast today. I ordered two braised eggs – don’t ask – with sourdough toast and coffee. And I’m sitting there putting ketchup on my eggs when three young girls walk in. The girls These girls are actually young ladies – but girls are girls to an older guy like me. Anyway, they are… Read More »

A Dream of Fire and Fear

The first thing I notice is the smoke, the smell of it. An acrid, cloying stink overwhelms my senses and crawls over and into me like a billion ethereal tendrils. The fear grows inside. It is a grotesque unyielding fear. It saturates me and makes it nearly impossible to open my eyes, my eyelids are heavy with terror.… Read More »

Thoughts on a Rainy Day

The sound of rain falling, cascading down the eaves, rushing to be free: This is the perfect soundtrack for a pensive day. Sometimes I feel so sad and lost, but I realized today, I cannot even manage to summon up a single tear. I think I have cried all the tears allotted to me in this lifetime. I… Read More »

The Liberty Bee – Chapter Four

—Chapter Four— It was a bright, crisp, nearly cloudless October day, there were just a few wispy puffs of white dotting the brilliant blue of the sky. it was the picture perfect autumn day — the kind pf which calendars are made. And there was more than a gentle breeze blowing from the south, and it was stirring… Read More »