Right now I'm in the basement of a house in the sunset district that was a speak-easy in the thirties and when the tenants moved in, they found photos down here of the people who sat around of an evening drinking bathtub bourbon. They bought it with contents and it's an incredible place, gorgeous furniture from 'back then'. Everyone's asleep but me ( Read more... )

I don't sleep much since I was 15. Last night was no exception, except maybe worse. As if I was sitting watch over a dying person. And I was ( Read more... )

When I was in my mid -wenties and married to the judge of this small town, he played poker every few months with a group of guys I called the City Fathers. They were carpenters, electricians, pot-growers, lawyers, firewood cutters, you get the picture ( Read more... )

PREFACE ( Read more... )

A month ago, I had some money so i bought at a chain supermarket which shall remain unnamed, an inexpensive dosage packet of ear mite medicine which i saw by chance. i thought wothehell, lets see if THIS is the poor blacknwhite cat's problem and ya know, i was only able to give four out of six doses before Frenchie decided he had about enough of ( Read more... )

it's been a hellish over a hundred degrees in my part of the country and i don't care if yr part of the country is suffering as well, i live 17 miles from the ocean (as the raven flies) and there OUGHT to be a effin' ocean breeze. but there is not,because there is a huge mountain range in the way. of course i care, i just had to throw a little ( Read more... )

no doubt if you've read anything in here for the last odd months, you will have known my computer was in the boneyard. well, thanks to a friend of my oldest, for 80 ducats, my computer has two new harddrives and works like a charm. (one of the hard drives is simply a back up. i mean for 30$, why not since i had it.) i am working again on one of two ( Read more... )

Once Upon A Marriage ( Read more... )

THE REAL GHOSTS ( Read more... )

I was replying to an email to kathleen winters (magicfirefly) and decided i liked what i was writing. i haven't been writing lately and if it's a letter to someone that inspires me these days. i'll take it.thanks kathleen ( Read more... )