Something in me won’t let me give up no matter how hard it gets I gotta keep pushing something in me finds what I need just when it seems impossible I gotta keep pushing there is greatness waiting I can’t give up I won’t give…

I have been holding onto the hope That I’ll find answers in the moon Or that I’ll be revealed as a fairy Released from the expectations of a society that make me want to die There is too much going on to be bored But…

Shapes form, but dissolve before I can name them. Colors come into focus, blend, and come back a new hue. And us? We form, come into focus, blend, and come back perhaps not better, but yes, good enough.    

Stress is tension, climbing and a system of pulleys. The tight rope closeness, emboldened by the fear of a lead fall. Create a crack in the boulder with my grip, snags and zippers.   The catch that takes my breath away before ascending again, determined…

The best advice I was ever given was to throw away any printed instructions Just wing it I was told; figure it out trust your instincts, and your guts The best advice I was ever given has served me well being as life is not…

let’s pretend, shall we? while we swing on the tire we’re preparing for life what should we begin with? ah, life begets life, they say, so, take one life form meld it with another life form (that’s hard) because there’s the right moment to contend…

Barney I love purple everything about purple all shades of purple but… Barney the purple dinosaur is an atrocity I do not appreciate. Here are my top ten reasons why: 1) A-nnoying songs that play over and over until you want to stuff your ears…

  All the people I love are the ghosts that hunt at night. The drive to my people’s home, the silence of nights Quiets down as the horror fades away. On the roads You do not meet the drunk, nor do you mistake the Roads…

Smallest of the litter, I didn’t want him at first, my eyes on his bigger sister, but he won us over with his determined fight as he pushed to get to the food bowl, trying to make his way through the mass of other wiggling…

Old Senator Roundtree   Today we lost a giant sequoia of a man in the Senate. Senator Thomas Roundtree lost his heroic fight with cancer. He had served our state for the last 43 years, a pillar of democratic ideals and an all around good…