"Sometimes life gives you second chances at renewal."
Once a year I drive out to see my daughter and her family. I have made the thirty-hour drive every year since she moved to Arizona. The truth is I first made the trip before I even had a family....
""This bedside manner wasn't taught in nursing school""
The corridor is quiet at this early hour. Monitors in the surrounding rooms chirp like mechanical crickets. It is another sleepless night as I stare motionless at the ceiling, trapped in a plaster cast from armpits to pubis.Titanium rods are...
"Checking her list. "Naughty?" "Oh, yes." "Nice?" "Always, Santa.""
Holiday lights of red and green scatter across the living room ceiling, and walls. Paintings, photographs, and sculpture spotted in the laser ballet. In the picture window, the lights shine through, covered with our oiled body prints.Minutes before, spread-eagled, tits...
"when renting a room from family closes in"
Gotta flee PasadenaLeave this homeHead towards the oceanTo be alone.Just for the nightTo clear my headDon't do it nowI'll end up dead.Passing through the tunnelsLife feels tumbledGotta fightThis mental jungle.Eagle Rock, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Hollywood, Sunset StripTom Petty's playing...