I have arrived at an unnamed road
I have arrived at an unnamed road or so my GPS has told me I laugh, I sigh, I nod I have arrived at an unmarked road or so I argue with my crusty old map I frown, I bite, I agree I have arrived at a closed […]
Glycerine
Startled, she woke up looking straight at the city lights of the night. Her heart beat widely while her mind was humming a night song. Her skin was moist as if it had been crying all night. Her tongue kept forming the word “kumao” and she did […]
What a wacky year: Tasers, choking on shellfish, mudslides but gratitude
Happy Holidays 2015 was a year where I lived in three cities and four residences. That right there is wacky. It was also a year where I had a series of wacky, odd personal experiences. Let me review. For instance, consider this. Three times this year I was […]
There’s no shortcut to a dream
I can jump through hoops crash through windows break down doors Yet, there’s no shortcut to a dream Nothing has ever come easy for poverty left many doors unopened and many windows with a jagged ledge But nothing has been insurmountable Genies in a bottle don’t exist But […]
Gatherings and moments in time across the globe
Back in college on summer day, I was returning from my field work trip. I was doing a summer research program that had saved me from a summer of couch surfing. I was walking across campus, deep in thought as to what I needed to accomplish the […]
Juxtaposition is the spice of life in a crapshoot world
Thelma and Louise had nothing on them. Sure a meek housewife and a rowdy waitress, on a short fishing trip that ends up in the car jump of a lifetime could be seen as a dynamic duo. But Jack and John two world kids brought up in a […]
She left her glass slipper on the doormat
It’s just another manic monday. The sun is rising and a storm is coming. She could feel it in her bones that needed extreme mending and tending. But how could she be fixed if she can’t even stand tall and demand what is due to her? She […]
My year of crashing through windows
The year of 2015 has been an odd one for me. I look outside my Los Angeles balcony and I pinch myself. How did I get here? I like to think of myself as someone who can walk through many doors. I can slide through one […]
Walking in BreadCrumbs
And I’m walking in breadcrumbs And I’m not going to balk Feeling my step As they all talk I’m rising up, reaching north Headed west, feeling the heat Scaling walls, unbinding ties Fanning flames, putting out the fire And I’m walking in breadcrumbs And I’m not going […]
Oops: There are no photo mistakes
Oops. These days we are all photographers. We have our cell phones that at times take way better pictures than the old cameras of yore (you know the ones that came out a few years back). At times we carefully set up our pictures and at other […]
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