DTheSeaHorse

…”hello?”

Aunt Elva’s voice sweet and gently came over the phone, “hi, how are you?”

“I’m good” I said, “just tired as usual.” “How are you,” I continued.

“I’m good,” she said. But hey the reason I’m calling is that your dad is in the hospital (honestly I don’t think she said hospital, he was in a recovery building area separate from local V A hospital in Fresno near where we live.)

She went on:…

The unmistakable difference between these two scenarios is obviously the ability of a human to change their mind, to recognize what their goal…

Fly, of all the places to go, you choose my left eye? #pithy #insects #random

When your delusions of grandeur and the fog of a false sense of hope have lifted and the clear and unmistakable reality that the rest of us have been negotiating while off on your fools errand settles you back on firm footing, free your guilt, senseless and harmful as it is so that It may drift off of your conscience. Gone are just a moments grains and fleeting are the grains to tumble in this…

Woooo! What Ric Flair and Wrestling Failed to Tell Me.

I used to have a membership at the local YMCA when I was in grade school. It was great, especially in the summer when I could use the pool during the hot 100+ degree days, there was a game room with a couple of foosball tables, and of course the indoor Gym for shooting hoops.

Being a latchkey kid I would get up early in the morning and ride my bike across town to the Y and shoot baskets for a few…

I was woken up earlier than usual that morning. The sound of full bellied laughter bounced off the walls. I could tell by voices that it wasn’t just my parents who were home. From my bed I could look out and see through the crack in my door the end table lamp on and some movement. I could tell my mother was coming toward my room, her laugh is a dead giveaway. She slowly crept into my room, she…

If my words ever hurt you, I promise,  I never meant to.

Most of the time when standing still, my feet feel like running.

The conversations crackle and squelch along with the percolating coffee. Snapping grease from the frying bacon hisses and gurgles as it barely penetrates my eardrums over the humming of the generator.

The chill of the wind and the dew now caked on the inner walls of the tent drop after each cuss word flies from the mouths of adolescent minded youths donning senior citizens garb.

They move with…

She reminded him of his grandmother, stoic and unwavering, if he didn’t know any better he’d have thought her to be a statue, motionless and cold with not much as a glint of life to be detected. As she perched herself in a worn dining room chair with the plastic that covered the padding beaten and oozing from years of poor treatment and being taken for granted, her chin near to the point of…

It’s hard to be angry when listening to the “Humpty Dance” song.

Breaking Radio Silence…an update.

Having been gone so long from writing any content on this blog, I thought I would have much to say, that the stories of my past would flood into my mind and travel through my fingertips and onto the keyboard. That has not happened. So with that, I have decided to tell you what I have been doing with myself in the past year, as if you’d care to know.

Firstly, I am still attending college, mostly…

People who are easily upset are often the most difficult to please.

Pulp Fictions ending and Reservoir Dogs beginning always makes me want breakfast