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In the Dark
We leave Friday evening after dinner my father drives, my mother chats and sighs and turns around to shush at Sue and me fighting our usual war for…
Jan 10
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December 2025
Dragonfly
Cold Spring Pond continued
Dec 27, 2025
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The Muck
The Cold Spring pond, part 2
Dec 20, 2025
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The Cold Spring Pond
1. My mother tells me it’s against the law to pick, or even touch a Cardinal Flower. My father nods his solemn imprimatur.
Dec 13, 2025
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Mr. Mucus
“I’d really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out.” Megyn Kelly, re…
Dec 6, 2025
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November 2025
Screaming
Why can’t they hear it? Or they’re being polite, pretending not to? Or they’re stone deaf from too much listening! You hear it, don’t you? Maybe you…
Nov 29, 2025
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The Ride Home
Driving home from my psychiatrist’s office I come to the realization that I would benefit by having a self to turn to when things get rocky.
Nov 22, 2025
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Thumb Sucking
Look: In barely enough light to make it out two little babies in a crib, supine, contiguous, sleepily sucking each another’s thumbs. One another’s…
Nov 15, 2025
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September 2025
Intervention
I was sitting for about an eternity swaying, and what Jews call shuckling...
Sep 13, 2025
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Old Cripple
The old cripple throws his walking poles on the floor where they lie crossed at the knee.
Sep 6, 2025
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Animal Farm II
The pigs of Animal Farm had litters as long as your arm
Sep 1, 2025
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August 2025
Blackberry Picking
Remember how Emperor Nero preferred playing on his fiddle and how heroic Achilles preferred sulking to being a hero?
Aug 9, 2025
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