The Labyrinth, an Easter Adventure
I originally shared this post two years ago after an enjoyable trip to the coast. I consider it to be a wonderful Good Friday meditation. Last week I was generously [...]
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Apr, 2026
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Mar, 2026
We Are Older Now
On our first trip to Europe, some of us fell in love with Paris: the art, the architecture, the tiny cafes where you could sit drinking coffee and eating bread [...]
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Mar, 2026
Vacation
Allow me to share a parable my late friend Craig told me: Before we are born, we are hanging out on the astral planes, having fun with our friends. Then our [...]
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Mar, 2026
Bread Cats
I've been crazy busy these past weeks, so I'm going to treat us all to an old favorite, a rerun, this week. Enjoy! After midnight the day-old loaves of [...]
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Feb, 2026
Complement
Written with my Thursday group with the prompts: you’ll wonder why, shoot for the moon, balsamic vinegarette, ceramic wine glasses, dread, warning, tree trunk across the path, this way please, [...]
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Feb, 2026
Matryoshka
Today's offering is the tiniest of flash fiction, written in poem form.The river is lapping on my porch. Red fish and blue fish leap toward the doorbellseeking sanctuary.My cat smacks [...]
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Feb, 2026
At the Border
I wrote this story a few years ago. On the surface it may not seem romantic, but in the chaos of this year, I felt it would make a nice [...]
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Feb, 2026
His True Name
I've been down with a monster cold the past couple weeks, and this blog was neglected. So today I'm publishing one of the first flash fiction pieces I wrote about [...]
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Jan, 2026
You Know How We Are
Written with the prompts: you know how we are, working on a list of things to do, no gray only black or white, what?, doors with round corners, rusty knife [...]
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Jan, 2026
Animals in Winter: as large as fog, as warm as bread
Polar Bears, fragrant and prickly,crouch in the coldlistening for the echoof flute notes in crystal caves.Fiercely, fiercely bread bakesdefying the bitter stingof tule fog.Follow the riversfollow their floating trails of [...]