The night was dark and damp. She tried to not focus on the darkness as she felt her way across the room. She pushed back towards the wall and it seared her skin. The sounds of the night were getting louder and chillier in the frightening, oppressive air. […]
It doesn’t stop It just keeps going like a freight train on steroids It picks up speed And never lets up It’s relentless The trenches built in deep The veins hardened with no relief Tonight Let’s go before the train stops Let’s wipe those tears away And, it’s […]
“There’s only one place at a time where eyes can be” Growing up in a Puerto Rican household, with a very superstitious mother, meant that I carefully monitored my dreams. And, by that I mean the nighttime movies I constructed while sleeping. My dreams were extremely […]
I’d fallen through the murky abyss And, then I woke up I nodded off to the melody And, then I woke up I hit the snooze button over 1000 times And, then I woke up The bright lights blinded me into a deep sleep And, then I woke […]
He was very wistful these days. He now had a grandchild, although that was completely unexpected. It was all very strange to thim how life just kept on going with no breaks in between. He liked to go into his music room every morning and look at how […]
Facebook, at work, on the highway. Everywhere I look I am bombarded with pithy sayings. I think these are meant to be motivational and encourage me to live a better, more fulfilled life. As a New York curmudgeon, I often scoff at such pithy, supposedly insightful bits. […]
In this day and age there are still people who do not use the out-of-office reply message. And sometimes that is because they don’t know how to use it or sometimes it means something about how you perceive yourself. but let me not get ahead of myself here. […]
My niece just turned ten. Unbelievable that she is now a tween. What is funny, though, is that she had a major birthday countdown beforehand. For about a month beforehand, we received daily updates on her birthday celebration. She had multiple agendas that we had to […]
A few weekends ago I went to these lovely Botanical Gardens in the San Gabriel Valley. It was an extremely gorgeous and serene spot just a few miles away from the hustle and bustle of the city. It always amazes me how one can find such quiet […]
Life has never been easy. It is not meant to be. Duh. What else was she to think as she looked through the window. She wanted to eat up everything in sight. Those jars were filled with life goodness but she needed to say vigilant. Food […]
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