Don’t Linger You enter the arena, Catching sight of the plaintiff you Shift your posture, Begin to exaggerate your walk, Longer bouncing steps with Arms swinging, your face Grinning to taunt. The beast in watchful repose, Eyes focused and tracking, Body poised, Belying coiled energy, Wanting to spring and kill, Not right now, Not this … More Don’t Linger
The work being done to promote the Paleo Diet has uncovered a terrible connection between the people of two-and-a-half million years ago and today. Someone, we know not who, took it upon themselves to delve deeper into the familial identities of the bones used to determine the diet of those long ago neighbors with some … More Frightening Factoid
RAIN ON LEATHER Northampton, Massachusetts in the early Fifties was a small, forgotten city half-way between Boston and upstate New York. Farm land, some industry, now families who have survived the losses of the area and the westward movement of technology and manufacturing. An economic decline began around this time that was tied to the … More It’s Fair Season. Ergo I Submit this Story.
One of my very favorite stories. The dialog is masterful. Tobias Wolff! It holds my attention like no other. I’ve posted this before, I think. No matter. Please enjoy the way this writer paints a picture with a story inside. G.M. Goodwin 19 September 2019 Tobias Wolff’s short story, “Bullet in the Brain” Reprinted by … More “Bullet in the Brain”
WINDOW 4 Minute Exercise Poem The eyes are a window Both ways, To see and be seen, Let the light shine in AND out, Show me your soul as I Pour mine toward you, Do you see the tail end of my Extruded life? Not yet? Keep looking…it will come to you. I sense your … More Emotional Dexterity
You Tell Me Now – I Didn’t Do It!? I spent my life at war with my father- And never knew why. But somehow I always felt it was my fault And didn’t know how. As a two year old I broke my back, my hip, And both my legs, And spent two years in … More A Poem by Tommy Manning
I LEARN TO FLY A seabird floats by in the icy air, A motionless contradiction, A confident demonstration, A glider’s bent wings held still, A head casually rotates left to right and back again, A seabird is sliding along with the wind, A seabird lifts me into a world above the ground, My self flies … More Flying Lesson
THERE IS A WOMAN There is a woman sitting at a table down the sidewalk from me- She was not there a moment ago, A trickster no doubt, Appearing just a few seconds after she wasn’t there, Clever. One thin denim leg over the other, Sitting straight, perfectly erect, Phone to her ear, Three quarter … More Yesterday in Rockland
Oh, my glob. Here is another. This one made me roar in support of this powerful person whom I admire beyond sanity. I remember this one. Powerful stuff. Don’t even tell me that millennials can’t think straight. I stand in wonder at Neeley and her like. “When I hear men discuss women’s clothes, or women’s … More Neeley 2
Here is a short segment of what I have learned from Neeley. She lives in California, so I don’t get to see her much at all. I hope we are still friends. Peace out, Gentle George “Our biases are so strongly burned into our existence, they become a part of our unconscious and influence how … More Neeley
Playing Fair and Being Kind 