It is a finger snap. A bad relationship. I have lost more years to the fog of a cloudy memory; years of nothing connected by landmark moments in my life. Life. It’s a wish in the wind carried on the petals of a daisy, and as such carries along and lasts just as long as [...]

If I could, I would smoke for the rest of my life. Not because I enjoy it; and not because it makes me cool, and certainly not because my friends are doing it. I simply started a long, long, time ago and now it is as much a part of who I am as my [...]

The bitter part of the sweetness of life is made of bad decisions and laced with good intentions. It is part of the mystery: you make a choice and live with it, sure that you one day will wind up somewhere, hoping only that your end is as close as possible to where you planned [...]

Loyalty is a dying bird. Cast to the earth by the flung rocks of instant gratification and our incessant flavor of the moment obsession, to be loyal is to be past tense, out of it and just plain inferior. Get what you want now. Do it now. Be it now. Waiting is for whiners and [...]

My day begins before the sun arrives. In the morning dark, that semi-friendly time of the day where you can just barely make out the traces of the night before, I sit up, shake my head and clear up my head. Damn. My feet are hurting again. Better wear my nylons to bed tomorrow night. [...]