Archive: August 2013

Your Reality

Do you ever stop for a minute and realize that you’re living in another person’s reality? You might be physically present but when you pause and look around, you feel more like an observer, an extra on a movie set, a stranger in this place. You probably wear the right clothes, say the right jargon,

Your Reality

Do you ever stop for a minute and realize that you’re living in another person’s reality? You might be physically present but when you pause and look around, you feel more like an observer, an extra on a movie set, a stranger in this place. You probably wear the right clothes, say the right jargon,

Green Means Go

He was driving 10 miles per hour over the speed limit.  Enough to make you nervous riding in the backseat of a minivan piloted by an aging driver with bad sight.  At each intersection with a traffic  light his wife would call out the color.  “Green.” The weight of the car begin to accelerate again.

Green Means Go

He was driving 10 miles per hour over the speed limit.  Enough to make you nervous riding in the backseat of a minivan piloted by an aging driver with bad sight.  At each intersection with a traffic  light his wife would call out the color.  “Green.” The weight of the car begin to accelerate again.

Do Over

I have friends.  And those friends are good for me.  And even though I try to keep people out these friends are gentle and strong enough to pass the security system scrunity test that I have fenced around my soul. The friends that I have are armed with nice brightly colored scissors to cut back

Do Over

I have friends.  And those friends are good for me.  And even though I try to keep people out these friends are gentle and strong enough to pass the security system scrunity test that I have fenced around my soul. The friends that I have are armed with nice brightly colored scissors to cut back

Eldred Gray

My high school self spent summers working at the family company that my dad took over and eventually shut down to a small (tiny) consulting business.  The Eldred Company was created by my great grandfather to design and create efficient machines for the glass industry.  Our family called it ‘the shop’.  And at the shop

Eldred Gray

My high school self spent summers working at the family company that my dad took over and eventually shut down to a small (tiny) consulting business.  The Eldred Company was created by my great grandfather to design and create efficient machines for the glass industry.  Our family called it ‘the shop’.  And at the shop

A Bull in Both Directions

I’m reading the memoir, Wild by Cheryl Strayed.  You know how sometimes you watch a movie and identify with a character in deep ways but don’t exactly know why.  Maybe the character puts language to things that you’ve thought, or does things that you wish to be true about you, or has some kind of

A Bull in Both Directions

I’m reading the memoir, Wild by Cheryl Strayed.  You know how sometimes you watch a movie and identify with a character in deep ways but don’t exactly know why.  Maybe the character puts language to things that you’ve thought, or does things that you wish to be true about you, or has some kind of