Category: Living
Sex, Death, and Disenfranchised Grief
"For some inexplicable reason our culture expects that the elderly experience a different kind of grief. As if age makes the death of a spouse, and that loss of a sexual relationship, expected and the... Read More
Marking Time with a Cricket
"Then a lone cricket starts playing his tune into the dark silence. It makes me feel wonderfully small and inconsequential to mark time with a cricket..."... Read More
On the Lighter Side…Gender Confusion at the Sportsman’s Warehouse
Share In light of the ongoing (and honestly, ad nauseum) bathroom gender discussions, I thought I’d share my own gender confused bathroom story. Last fall I was visiting Sportsman’s Wareho... Read More
The “Tipping” Year
Share Saturday was our 22nd Wedding Anniversary. I’ve been calling this the “Tipping” year because this is the year that marks the point where we’ve officially been together fo... Read More
Grave at the Quiet Bend
"The fingers of shadow lengthen Along the quiet bend Of the road that runs from East to West Beside the grave of a friend."... Read More
Untouchable in America
The overweight. The obese. The chubby. The fat. The plump. These are the untouchables in America.... Read More
The Cowardice of Disbelief
Disbelief, by comparison, is just so blessedly easy. All it requires is our disinterest, our contempt, or our anger. Anger is easy compared to kindness.... Read More
To Grandma on Ezekiel’s Birth
ShareThis poem was written just a few days after my firstborn son was born and as my Grandma Stratton was slowly slipping away from mortality. Grandma had suffered a stroke that kept her bedridden and... Read More