Bagels & Blind Spots
As I grow older there are blind spots and blank spots. Blind spots in the navigation of a world that grows unfamiliar, and blank spots where
Friendship
We met as four strangers huddled under the same awning in a hailstorm, at the most vulnerable moment in our lives. We clung to each other as we
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And the Captain Said
Norma would tell stories, some her father had told her, and some about him. Albert Edward Mackay, pronounced Mackai, was born in the Gorbals on the
Lightning
In the beginning there was my beloved. She pulled me out of the vortex centered on myself and into a life, blind with love, filled with
The Stardust Connection
Norma had always been my muse, my partner in every sense of the word. Her laughter still echoed in my mind, her sharp wit and fierce love lingering in the quiet corners of our home. But now that I was alone, I needed something more than mourning. I needed to find purpose again.
Hunter's Moon
It is an October morning. I can hear the woosh of the boiler in the basement as it turns on and the sound of the steam