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A Very Sappy Dream
Long dreams last night. I recall a subway line going through a shopping mall—as opposed to escelators—much more fun if you ask me. But I don’t recall much else. I don’t spend my showers replaying my dreams (most of the time) as I used to (most of the time). I do recall sitting in a…
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Columbia
Work dreams aren’t the norm except for when they are and when they are they’re not welcome. As with most things this is not always true, as my rare jaunts into the early nineties where I’m surrounded by the constant buzzing of McDonald’s fryers and I’m smiling because, despite only taking up a year of…
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Proposed AMENDMENT (XXVIII) to the Constitution of the United States
AMENDMENT XXVIII Section 1. The third and fourth paragraphs of Article II, Section I, of the Constitution of the United States, are hereby repealed. Section 2. The third and fourth paragraphs of Article II, Section I, of the Constitution of the United States is hereby superseded as follows: Legally eligible voters in their respective States…
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A New Beginning
Writing. It used to be easy for me. Easy-peasy. But then again, a lot of things used to be easier for me. Faith, Hope, and Love, to mention only three. And friendship to the n‘th degree. Sacrifice. Peopling in general. But sleep, no, sleep has always been a known quantity, a relentless struggle to fall…
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Mom’s surgery and a comparison
I’m in Prineville again. Been here for two days now. Saturday. Drove in Thursday. The plan was to hit the charging station in Sandy at noon, have my one-on-one with my manager while I topped off the car, then head to Saint Charles in Redmond to visit my mother who’d just had her gall bladder…
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Sex, Condoms, and Falling in Love
Scattered somewhere in the middle of my dreams last night I saw a young woman who was, as near as I could tell, a recent romantic interest. I don’t recall what she looked like, only that we were going to have sex, maybe for the second time, and I’d asked her to go find a…
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A Rainbow Bridge
“Grief relief,” I said, pulling a small bottle of Jack Daniels from the left inside pocket of my black denim Levi jacket. I expected my sister to look at me with her usual, “Okay, little brother, you’re getting yourself into trouble again?” look on her face, the one I’d become accustomed to, but she just…
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Obituary for Richard V. Phay
Richard Vernon ‘Dick’ Phay passed away at his home in Prineville on September 29, 2021. Dick was born on December 18, 1939 in San Jose, CA to Louis and Gladys Phay. He grew up in Morgan Hill, CA with his two brothers, Will and Bob, and their sister Juanita. He married Lorelei Conlan in 1960…
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Star Trek V: Voyage to the Biggest Dick
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, was released on June 9th, 1989. I remember that because I was fifteen years old, sick as a dog, and imprisoned abroad in Australia where, at least at that ancient time in human history, blockbuster films (not that this was one) came out three or so months in Australia…
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Gossiping Around the Kitchen Table
I didn’t think it would end up where it started: at the kitchen table. And why would I? My parents had raised me with one set of guidelines for social correctness and now they were directly contradicting themselves. So what if I was barely a teenager? Hadn’t I earned sufficient years and experience to know…