The Little Words Mean the Most

from the Prologue to My Father's War Stories As Told By Toys

 

Irish lives—Irish-American lives, even more—are about the secrets. There's really nothing else. Facade and secrets.

Dear Approval Fruitcakes: Before ye judge, read at least 4 books

I suppose I remain sexual until I die

 

There is little point after that.

So very, very few necrophiliacs per million

 

 

Montali Photo Show Outpaces Perry in Polls

Unknown obstacle, motorist in therapy, artist AMY MONTALI know HER AMAZING

SHOW MY SCREEN

Webinar today. Doing three or four of these a month now, maybe more! Gold in them thar hills!

Each webinar arrives at that poised moment when the host, the sweet one who greets and instructs the attendees, turns it over to the content provider (me). In Gotomeeting at that moment you click "show my screen."

THEN whatever is on your screen is also visible to your audience.

Today, I had a bunch of websites open. Some PDF newsletters I was critiquing. And my email inbox. I'd been shopping for new underwear the day before, as one does. And now the right vertical ad bar of my email inbox is filled with superbly fit, barely-legal young men nude except for their 2(X)IST skivvies. (Getting the picture, Joel?) I felt an explanation might be needed: "It's Macy's. Not porn."

My Disfigurement

 

Big toe, right foot.

 

Colored like an ivory piano key now but

once was black and much worse.

Bang on it and no sound came out.

Falling firewood hammered it

nail dead, trapped with no escape from my personal meteor

in a soft boot without steel toe cage

 

Not a health enthusiast, really, so YK

Failed to monitor progress come spring.

But I have an old Egyptian cure

files, vinegar, fans and barges

 

 

She hears

 

my steps through our interior forest

home and office, together for 27 years in the same space

my steps plod plod up the stairs

she loves me loves me not?

 

she calls for me

she loves me

 

 

Harrisburg wants its money's worth: 5 presentations

Ruined By Dada

A memoir

A wine & dine weekend with the Kramers, Nicole, Larry, Dave

Scituate, MA, Labor Day weekend; Nicole on the shutter button; and yes, that's a smiley face hedge. The food was to die for (thank you, Lar! him of the lighter blue shirt).