Dining and Dashing

Sigh. This one wasn’t fun to write. There’s an inherent risk outlined in any business where you’re trying to put food on the table. Back in the old days, stores had everything behind a counter with the store clerk between the customer and the goods. The customer would ask for an item, and the clerk […]

A Wing and a Prayer

After the last week and my ruminations on the hurt I’d caused through my real-life actions, I did something I’d never done in my life last night: I prayed. I made an appeal, noting out loud that life never works like this but nevertheless begging a higher power to turn back the clock so that […]

Hurt

The comments I got back after my blog about father figures was very interesting. More than one reader was surprised I have a good relationship with my father. Readers have, publicly or privately, told me that some of the dialogue could have been taken verbatim from some of their own arguments with their parents, and […]