It's okay.  Go on.  Cry as hard as you can.  No one will see.  Drink a cold beer in a hot shower.  Make a silly...

It always comes back to roads.  In almost five decades of summers, I've run down a lot of roads.  Sprawling interstates.  Back country lanes scratched...

I sent her letters.   Maybe I sent too many; maybe I didn't send enough. I have never been a reliable judge of the post.  In...

It was in the between years when I functioned best.     Those chunks of sticky time that aren't really story worthy.  Yet still somehow remain...

She's not anything at all like the others.    I endured sleepless nights walking the face of this city trying to figure her out.  But...

32 years ago, we sat beside a river.     Adolescent love; hand in hand.  Snow fell.  Conversation froze; breath caught, suspended.   She spoke of...

Outside, the face of a sunny Monday has collapsed into darkness.  Inside, blueberry wine is poured into a stained coffee mug.  Because it was her...

  There is nothing worse than finally meeting the woman of your dreams, in your dream, only to wake up and realize that you'll never...