As my life was falling apart, a girl said to me “It was fated”. While the recognition of my reality settled in and made itself at home, I thought blandly to myself “It… always.. fucking is” I've lived an extraordinary life. A life of heart strands and hope, of stick-with-it-ness…

Too much caffeine leaving 2 am remnants of 8 am, 11 am, 3 pm, pots of coffee intended to fever pitch production in the hopes your leftovers do not consume my good common sense. I depend on that. The dollars and sense. Not paper made proof of years being told…

I cannot find the beauty queen that I am looking for. She has my name, or more accurately, I have hers. A contestant in the Miss Canada pageant somewhere between 1970–1975. When asked, my Mother enthusiastically quips “Oh yes, as soon as we heard it, your Father and I looked…

I thought that if I said the words, perhaps the feeling would follow. That if I named it, and said “I understand, I forgive you” the depth of my rage would bubble, subsiding itself to a glassy rippled surface. I hoped too look upon my face, and see the reflection…

I’m at that phase in life where you begin to understand that the knowledge you have accumulated is more vast than your sum total, and yet has no sum total at all. “Knowledge is knowing, you know nothing.” ~Socrates I’m unabashedly a pleasure seeker who has a deep appreciation for…

They are a commodity, as are all the emotions we have to offer up in exchange for what? A job? a friend? a lover? or perhaps the promise of. My fucks have value. They are loyal and emboldened to be there when no one else has fucks that will. My…

I was laid off from my job in the early part of this year. It would be the fourth lay off in seven years and I was done. I didn’t want to go back to working the corporate life. “Best business” practice is intended to anesthetize the human condition so…

I was not always a loudmouth. In fact, there was a time where I would graze lockers as far to one side of the school hallways as possible, in hopes that I would not be required to have a conversation with anyone. I was tall, taller than most everyone in…