A blip of Autumn from my perch in Lakewood~_______________I stepped out to the back porch on this warm, October evening, here on the wet side of the Washington Cascades. It was early evening, just after sunset near the Puget Sound. The scent of burning firewood from a nearby fireplace met me instantly. In the next […]
Adult Life; December 1st, 2022
The air on the back porch was in the 30° range +/- a few degrees, the sky clear. A portion of the moon was visible in the eastern sky between the branch’s of the big, old, cedar tree that towers over the porch, in a way that lent to something I can only describe as […]
Grocery Shopping
“Did you find everything?” She asked with her voice and eyes. She had skin touched by generations of milk chocolate perfection, ruby lips & emerald eyes, she had busy on her mind. 36-24-36 and at 5’-6” in flats I’ld wager she stood above the crowd in a pretty way in any room she ever entered. […]
Adult Life 2022
City crews had just finished tearing up the section of Pine Street South that borders our home on the east side, and replacing it with a new bed of crushed & fines and then a fresh layer of asphalt on top. Heat from the new road surface condensed as the misty rainfall and warm new […]
Kid Life; Adult Life/Race
On my way home after running an errand to get some potato’s at the local big-box, there was a piece on NPR that grabbed my attention. The Jeep & I took the long way home with the sack of potato’s. It was an interview with a gal that had more melanin than I. She was […]
Wrinkle Ranchin’, Adult Life; “There She Lay”
Deaf in her left ear, she sleeps on her right side. Understandable. Her life has morphed from what it once was, into something new. Better or worse is up for grabs. There’s somethin’ about the way her mouth is, as she lay there. Somethin’ akin to a smile or a silent happy. It’s good to […]
The Diner
I was headed back home to the wet side, the west side of the Washington Cascades to Tacoma Town. The day started out driving to Wenatchee in eastern Washington to meet up with a fella to talk business. It’d been a good day. Hunger pestered me on the long drive back, so after I went […]
Kid Life; Young Adult Life, mid 20’s. The Carpenter Apprentice
It was the upper/mid 1970’s, I’d been working at a local Big Boy Restaurant for the past few years; Kebo’s Big Boy. Went from bein’ a dishwasher to a cook to a night manager since graduation from high school in 1972/Lakes, back then. Married a beautiful young gal a year or so younger than I […]
Kid Life; Messin’ Up. Circa 1966/67, and makin’ nice again
“Why did you do that, Johnny?” It was a difficult time for me. I’d grown just old enough that the stuff in my world that didn’t make sense, manifested itself in a way that was inappropriate. It was among the first times I lashed out so significantly, but it darn sure wasn’t the last. “I […]