Ninety-nine years ago my grandmother was born.
Of course she wasn’t my grandmother then.
She was just one more new chance at getting things right in the world.
One more chance to solve the problem of war and economic inequality.
Perhaps racism would be erased and the human race would be won for good.
Maybe the rat race would be […]

In early 1996, I started my admittedly shameful record of dental appointments. Well, that is if you ignore the three year interval between the previous visit whilst on my old man’s work insurance, and the self-funded trip of May 1996. It was at least that far back when I was first told I would need […]

Undermining love
Love me more than those other ones
It will drive them mad
Undermining love
Carry the baton farther
Watch them fall away
Undermining love
They had their chance to excel
They didn’t want it
Undermining love
See the future? It lies ahead
For us to call ours
Undermining love
What we have we made ourselves
And its our party
Undermining love
They set up the game for me
Don’t like […]

I don’t refer to myself as a “born again” Christian because that term has been appropriated by a sector of Christianity that I don’t very much agree with. The basis for the term is based on the Gospel of John in chapter 3 when Jesus says that a person must be reborn in order to […]

A black man might be our next president.
A dream lingers on, bound for sweet fulfillment.
Four years on, wedded love is evident.
I wonder, is this what Jesus meant?

The mournful elegy, molto adagio
Speaking out of the deepest grief and confusion
Too sad for words, the strings must weep in their stead
The bittersweet taste of Pyhrric victory
The heave and sigh of life itself
Deeper now, higher now, and back around
A slow marching band playing almost silently until the fortissimo-forte
Teetering at the crest of the ethereal arch
A […]

Here is how I got to and from church today. The church is about 15 miles away and I didn’t want to drive, since that is all I do all week anyway. I was trying to improve upon a similar trip back in January, but planned to use my bike and trolley. The universe had […]