Too young to die

In this morning’s paper there was an obituary for a boy I had grown up with and gone through school with.   It didn’t say how he died but it did cause me to surmise as a lack of description usually does.   Reading his obituary and seeing his face jogged a much older memory.   This boy [...]

Abusive Boyfriends

My kids asked again about how I met their Dad and the crazy boyfriend that led to that fateful meeting.  It all started with the Cure, a great band but a band that reminds me just the same of the a relationship that almost ended my life.  It’s a strange story but a true story…..and [...]

Morons, Old People and Dead Kittens

Sometimes a bad day at work can just bleed off the page like a watercolor, mucking up the area outside of the lines.  That is exactly what happened last week when I almost accosted an old lady in a Blimpie’s sandwich shop.  

It was late when I returned home from work that afternoon and Miss Rex, [...]

Choker

The girl is now 13 and more often than not we are bumping heads.   It’s a scary age and it’s not because she isn’t a good kid (she is), it’s because I wasn’t a good kid.   Weekends spent at my mothers meant that I got to do what I wanted, where I wanted and my [...]