Perimeter Check

When the weather’s warm I do most of my writing sitting on the small porch outside my front door. Free from the distractions of television and a comfy bed I find I can focus my attention better. And since my doctor recently told me I’ve got a Vitamin D...

The Dead Pool

It’s Wednesday night and I’m lying on the couch bored out of my mind. Seeking diversion I flip through the television channels. Nothing good is on. I activate the on-screen menu and tab over to the pay-for-view movie section. Nothing there either. When in...

Positive Energy

It’s Tuesday afternoon and I’m waiting for an appointment in front of a building on Riverside Drive. Grey clouds hang low in the sky while an eastward breeze carries the laughter of children playing in a park past my ears. I look up at the dour sky and...

It’s A Lousy Quarter

A lovely young woman’s coming by my place for dinner tonight and I haven’t got a clean thing to wear. Realizing my date won’t probably won’t appreciate funky smelling clothing, I drive over to the laundromat on the main street of my town. After...

Birthday Digit

It’s my birthday. So that means I’m getting a finger up my ass. I’d love to tell you that my upcoming anal adventure is connected to some kinky in-between the sheets fun commemorating the twelfth anniversary of my twenty-ninth birthday – but it...

To Boldly Go

“Good afternoon, sir,” the grocery store clerk says as I enter the supermarket. “How are you today?” “Fine,” I reply. Thinking the guy’s trying to sell me something I try maneuvering my shopping cart around him. That’s not so easy. The cart has a faulty...

Talking Head Deathmatch

It’s two o’clock on Wednesday afternoon and my brother and I are in his living room eating pizza. I’m on a diet and shouldn’t be carbo-loading, but the smell of pepperoni has overwhelmed my iron will. “Thanks for watching the kid,” my brother...

The Mighty Pacific

I’ve always wanted to see the mighty Pacific since I was a boy. It took me until I was forty, but I made it! If you told me when I started this blog that it would take me to La Jolla, California I would have never believed you. Many thanks to the young lady who...

Missing Marisa

It’s an impossibly sunny California day and I’m in a tony L.A. restaurant eating equally tony food with a smart and beautiful young woman. Sometimes I love my job. After we finish our interview and my delicious French fusion chicken starts its journey down...