by waiter | Mar 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’ve been going to the same old fashioned barbershop for ten years. With a firetruck chair for kids in the window and an almost exclusively male clientele, it’s most definitely not a chic salon. They don’t offer manicures, facial exfoliants or a private room in the...
by waiter | Mar 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
As Renee and I walked down the main drag of Playas del Coco the noonday sun was beating down like Vulcan’s hammer and I could feel the UV rays busily mutating my skin’s DNA. Even though the humidity was a sedate forty-eight percent, it was enough to make it feel like...
by waiter | Mar 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Almost as soon as my wife’s plane lifted off the tarmac for California, my daughter said, “Remember you promised to take me to the escape room.” “My word is my bond,” I replied. I knew once we got into the escape room, however, Natalie would want me to solve all the...
by waiter | Mar 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
When I got back from Hawaii, I was greeted with a snowy negative eighty degree temperature swing and, to add insult to injury, was forced to dig out my driveway before we could unload our luggage from the car. “Fuck this,” I said, as my thinned blood rebelled in the...
by waiter | Feb 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Today, my family attended a memorial mass to commemorate the first anniversary of my father’s death. Since I didn’t burst into flames the moment I walked into the church, I took that as a good sign. Taking a pew next to my mother, I took a deep breath and prepared to...
by waiter | Feb 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
When I was in seminary, one of my professors told me, “Before God, there was a sense of the sacred.” Long before people started theologizing, they looked at the rising sun, thunderstorms, mighty oceans, and the stars with awe and wonder. Peering into Kilauea’s vast...
by waiter | Dec 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
My daughter plays the flute in her fifth grade band and, this morning, they put on a holiday concert. Arriving early, I snagged a couple of seats near the front for snapping pictures and waited for my wife to join me. “How are you, Steve?” one of the mom’s...
by waiter | Nov 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
Malignancies, car crashes Power’s decisions rash Politics, war, ideological clash Terror marring summer skies Buildings imploding, cutting short lives Death, loss, insanity, sundering ties Young men angered over trifles Seeking fame with rifles ...
by waiter | Nov 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
On morning kissed streets Mercuries fleet streak past As mothers perambulating, solidarity meet Whilst old men for whom the die’s cast Each other knowingly greet. The shopkeeper with wares Opening for the day As youth, hale and fair Blazing bright, much to say...
by waiter | Nov 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Huddled masses, yearning to be free Enslaved to needs of you and me Grow our crops, tend our fields Beneath hard men who refuse to yield. Packing impulsive desires Things they can’t afford to acquire Into mails, swift to ship As technocrats...
