Damocles sword. Been thinking about that. I’m continually glancing upward, but of course I’m seeing nothing. It’s a bolt from the edge,...

Family. Vacation. Beach, beer, banter, bullshit. Repartee sword fights and raillery. Fun, but tiring. So I dive into the ocean. Barely...

Life starts with being pushed from a skyscraper window and ‘So far so good’ becomes your, and the universal, mantra. Lemmings we are....

I’m dreaming - on that cusp between understanding and revulsion. I awake, understanding. But find no pen to record it, no granite to...

It seems like yesterday, but I know it was forty some years ago when our lips first touched. Good night, dear. Forty years redux.

I dream of you. You know I do. You never acknowledge me But I think you want to. I imagine approaching you from behind , draping my arm...

Is it bedtime yet? This is my first thought upon awakening. Another dreary day to endure. Wakefulness. Such a chore. Listlessness du...

I thank you, haiku. For this moment in the sun Fall is imminent. Brewed in the springtime Stewarded through the summer Prost! October...

Every relationship will experience denouement and death. Some corporeal. You looked out for only one. Not recognizing, or maybe just...

I’m cooking shrimp scampi and listening to the Highwaymen. Their song ‘Deportee’ comes up and, as always, I tear up. Tragedy put to music...

So I was thinking about writing my obituary and realized I was living it. No rewriting that. But what then? What about 3 column inches of...

Fria woke up happy. This was infrequent, but today was Friday, her day off. She always referred to Friday as Fria day. The day she set...

I’m not sure I’m awake but I’m aware. I’m magically suspended in mid air staring into a starless void. I hurt. If pain had color my...

My son Ben created this image of me using images of more famous physicists. Zoom in and see how many you can name. Google Benjamin...

Paul Simon’s song ‘Overs’ haunts me. Especially that ending line. A brief good night kiss and a whisper In my ear, “We’ll get over this.”...

No matter what you tell her, my auntie Nim will maintain the opposite. My mother urged me to be a cardiologist, but my heart wasn't in...

Some young guy yelled at me in the parking lot, “Uh, man, you left your lights on.” But I heard “Old man, the fights on!” I whirled and...

So 2021's Opening Day is tomorrow. Just to state the author's biases from the outset, I bought this because I own a flagpole and also...

I enter the room and he’s already there flirting with the ladies, and shamelessly, with the little girls. They all love and trust Santa....

I’m so pathetic. Been a longtime fan of ‘Brooks and Shields’ Fridays on PBS. Then Shields resigned and was replaced by Jonathan Capehart....