Rain and Sound

Last night amid rain, wind, and storm we watched my brother play football. My interest in the game cannot match my father’s immersed obsession; his impatience and anxiety before a game are akin to a junky awaiting his next fix. Unfortunately, as a hybrid man and geek, possessed with my father’s basic understanding of [...]

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Just a few thoughts

Lately I have been feeling under the weather. Not physically sick, but just irritable, tired, and impatient. For those who know me, this shift in mood contrasts greatly with my normally optimistic (translation: annoying) self. Usually when I get this way, my body is telling me that I need to work out a bit. Nothing [...]

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Distractions

On Friday, Desad and I completed the Xbox 360 game, Gears of War, in co-op mode on Hardcore. For those unacquainted with the video game lexicon, it marks the third Friday in a row in which Desad and I electronically fought evil subterranean monsters called Locust for five hours straight, while yelling random phrases like [...]

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Daming

 Wow, what a view . . .
Today I took a nature walk along the reservoir with my brother Kevin.  Lately over the past four years or so, I have attempted to become more acquainted with nature.  A fortuitous meeting several years ago with a young lady from the West Coast spurred me to drop the books, [...]

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The Sky at Dusk

Every now and then, my mind takes a fancy to description. Results vary, but experimenting with words and imagery typically end in something rather unique and beautiful in itself:
I watched so many beautiful shapes gather in the sky today. The sky was a blue and white canvas, foaming with gray mountains of cloud. [...]

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Hard of Hearing

Of all my senses, my hearing manifests itself as the most distracted, absent-minded simpleton. Not worthwhile enough to be deaf, for that would at least augment my remaining senses; no, I hear just enough to be comical, like an old pantaloon in Medieval dramas with a funneled brass horn permanently attached to his ear [...]

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Montag

Guy Montag. The name suddenly popped into my head today while I stared down the price gauge at the gas pump, mentally willing — with great futility I might add — the spinning digits to slow down, to recede back to $0.01. However, nearing thirty dollar mark and just shy of half a [...]

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Twisted

I slit the sheet; the sheet I slit;
and on the slitted sheet I sit.
– my grandmother’s favorite tongue-twister
Some days when I feel particularly analytical, I pull out that which I call my life, shake off the mildew and cobwebs, ready it for a little introspection. This is difficult business of course like trying to [...]

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Disney Monsters

One summer long ago while on vacation in Florida, my Mom, Dad and grandparents decided to break our morning’s fast on an old river-boat- turned restaurant, later christened Fulton’s Crab House after the construction of Pleasure Island. My brother, Pat, and I were pretty young at the time, three and [...]

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