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… Read More »
He Left the Candle Burning 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 its dancing shadows… Read More »
Getting Old My Way It’s hard to believe that autumn is just around the corner. It seems just the other day I was sweating my way through mowing the grass on the first “official” weekend of summer – that would be Memorial Day Weekend for those of you who don’t live in the USA. I don’t know why… Read More »
Goodbye Ellen Raspberry So many years ago, we were young and full of life, and now, well now, we’re old and our vigor has drained away like the sand in the hourglass of life. All we are left with are our memories. The road behind us is sunny and bright; the road ahead is dark and poorly lit.… Read More »
The Things in the Night During the night, in the quiet hours when most of the world sleeps, you lie awake and the things in the night become distorted and amplified. The faucet that drips drips drops during the day goes unnoticed – but in the quiet of the night it can become a disturbing, even sinister, sound.… Read More »
The Richest Man in the World So deeply embedded are memories that course through my brain, that even after all these years, his memories are my memories, his dreams are my dreams, and his hopes are my hopes. I cannot be any other than who I am. I carry on a legacy and his life. I carry inside… Read More »