Today is my birthday

 

Photos:  as a kidlet, in Berkely, girls and the cake (2003)
The first birthday I really remember is in second or third grade, my Dad came to school with a cake – it was a surprise and I was everyone’s best friend because we got out of one class and went outside.  I remember a yellow [...]

On the mesa in New Mexico

 
 
While tourists bought silver Indian jewelry
Drunk people drove their cars on Coors
The setting sun painted the Sandias red and orange
Hot air balloons floated on the air currents
You were there on the mesa
 
Your deaths forgotten
Your secrets were hidden
About why you died
And how you died
You might have wept
You might have begged
You might have been angry
You might have [...]

An Icky Feeling

I get those ValPaks in the mail every couple of weeks.  They are a collection of coupons/advertisements from local companies for oil lubes, window blinds, cable, restaurant coupons and other assorted services.  I dutifully go through them – afraid I’ll miss something.  I never really find anything I can use –  I like the Carl [...]

A Hint of the Past

I saw a big Harley the other day
While I was waiting for a friend at a restuarant
I felt the wind in my hair
And thought of a time
When I was young and wild
With my arms wrapped around you
The sun beating down
The asphalt giving off heat
I could have lived forever at that moment
Speeding at 95 mph holding [...]

It’s my birthday and I’ll blog if I want to…

Photo:  My cousin Ralph and I in Austin
Sixty freakin’ two – how in the hell did I get here? 
Well, actually it’s a long and scary journey from being born in 1946,  12 years of Catholic school taught by cloistered nuns, a rebellion in 1966, marriage, baby, biker club, VW bus, hippiedom, protest the war, more [...]

Deadliest Catch – a new fan

Now, I never liked crabs.  My family used to go crabbing on the weekends and bring them all home in a bushel basket (little crabs compared to the ones in Bering Sea).  Those crabs would try to escape – I used to like to look at them walking sideways.  However, my mother would put them [...]

Baseball – a new fan

I really wasn’t aware of it becoming a part of my thinking.  I was visiting in Georgia – over at my sister-in-law’s house.  Her husband, Bill, was watching a big screen television – baseball – apparently it was the playoffs for the American League.  I had my first introduction to the Red Soxs. 
Now, when I [...]

The Pain Just Never Goes Away

Today would have been Joe’s 41st birthday.  Joe was killed when a truck hit his car in 1988 – he was 21 years old at the time of his death.  The horror happened in the first part of December – I went to work and took off at lunch to buy his stocking stuffers (a big [...]