His mouth stayed still, but his eyes grinned a little through his glassless glasses. “I told ya twice I had to tell ya somethin’. Now I’m tellin’ ya: See, every person in the world has their Garden Angel, and every Garden Angel has their person.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah. And every person thinks their Angel is just their shadow [...]
I got an axe. It’s an axe I’ve wanted for a long time and Rosie got it for me for my birthday. It’s a nice axe, handmade in Sweden. Longer than a hatchet, shorter than the average axe. It’s made for camping and canoeing. It feels good in the hand, and it’s good to look [...]
He was on hold for the eleventh time in two weeks. Most places have foresaken easy listening or Motown hits on their hold music for advertisements and reassurances of impending real-time human interaction. While he was leaning back, waiting for the ad to be interrupted by a live human voice, the only thing he could [...]
I just came across this quote. It was a favorite of mine a few years ago, hanging in my apartment and used at the beginning of the first of my three attempts at a novel (the first two attempts failed, we’ll have to see about the third). I’m an introvert for the most part, but [...]
We took the train across Italy from Florence to the port city of Ancona. The train was full that Monday-after-Easter and with our EuroRail passes and unreserved seats, Cameraman and I were relegated to sitting on our packs in the narrow walkway. There was maybe 18 inches between us and the compartments, but the guys [...]
I don’t know how we picked St. Patrick’s Day, but I took the day off work and we headed out for some early season fishing. The day went well. The weather was raw, but we got a couple decent fish and both enjoyed being on the stream again.
We left the river about 5:00 so [...]
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