My Journal
The Winter Holiday
Are the holidays here already? Sometimes this season reminds me of the difference between a normal person, a neurotic, and a psychotic. Come morning, the normal person says, “I’m tired. I really don’t want to go to work.” But they get up anyway and off they trudge....
On Love
On love, thoughts from this man. Some words mean so much, carry so much emotion that they overwhelm us. Usually, these are words we cannot adequately define. Oh sure, we can look them up in dictionaries, but those definitions don’t do justice to the emotion evoked....
After Jeremiah 31:16
Did they cry for their mothers? Pray to a god? Ask for mercy? Perhaps they died without a sound not a whimper or tear. Nobody talks about their actual deaths about this slaughter of innocents. We remember them for their could-have-beens: hopes, wishes, childhood...
Good Morning – Goodbye
I say good morning to them all…by name. Do inanimate objects have names? Perhaps even souls? I think so. I greet them in order. First the stuffed animals. Thackeray the sloth is always first. After him, I make the living room rounds. Bloomie, also a stuffed sloth—this...
A Gesture of Love
I hear the tree branches hitting what sits above me and the howls of wind outside the house. I rush to mom and sit at her side. She strokes my face and tells me it is okay; not to be afraid and it is only wind. Yet, I am fearful. Even when she kisses me on top of my...
Another Life
Another Life By C. Stene Duckworth In another life, Chris saw himself running with the buffalo. His moccasin covered feet kicked up the dry dirt of the rain-starved land, tracing the ancient path of the herds that use to roam here. While the smell of sweet-grass...
One Night
Dark Angel
Dark Angel By John B. Rosenman She woke to find she was being raped by an angel. Despite her confusion, she could see the angel clearly. Great white wings beat slowly above her attacker's incomparably handsome face. His beauty was...
An Introduction to Freemasonry
An Introduction to Freemasonry by Clayton Clifford Bye When Ken Weene suggested I write a piece about Freemasonry for use on The Write Room Blog (and now on this page), I jumped at the opportunity. After all, I am an active Freemason who loves to teach people about...
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