As a kid I made gifts for special occasions birthdays, Christmas – parents, grandparents, aunt, uncle hangers-on all got something made by my own two hands. for a few years it was something acrylic clear, encasing some object or picture deemed worth of enshrinement by…

There is an old adage about hope seeing ‘The light at the end of the tunnel’ An optimist coined that ‘The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train.” A pessimist, hedging his/her bet came up with that variation Wyle E….

I would never want a dragon as a pet nor would I want a griffin, or a unicorn All fine creatures, but impractical Godzilla would not suffice he can’t sit, so training him would be loaded with issues I subscribe to the ‘go big or…

You can long for something desire it maybe even covet it we are a ‘things’ culture possession is nine-tenths of being American Now in a time of plague our pestilence may truly turn out to be ourselves. – Mark L. Lucker © 2020 http://lrd.to/sxh9jntSbd

He gave me a present, Not bought, Not pretty and gift wrapped in silvery paper, Not shoved in a box with a card on top, He will give me an idea. Gift wrapped in words, Only thought of, not thought through I can make it…

The only gift I ever wanted came to me, The only thing I’ve ever wanted, since I was three When all I ever wanted was to be Happily married To, exactly, only and both: Brad and Dee Forever happened forever and it never came to…

Missing my cat quizzical and excited. She had a fierce style attitude for days When she purred I felt happy

I was walking along a Florida beach when a man approached just to talk. I’d walked many miles, all the way from Miami to somewhere north of there. I’m not sure where I was. The post 9/11 world was fuzzy back then; And, my mind…

Goldilocks scheduled the meeting inviting all three bears on her management team A breakfast conference made all the better with ordered food from local Porridge House Noticing the bears were all in the waiting room she continued into Zoom strangely finding no bears Each had…

Blinding sandy dunes A green rattlesnake hisses Aging lion yawns