For Javier ~ Goodbye Old Friend
Javier died last Sunday night. He passed from this world after a long battle with prostate cancer. We used to be close friends, and we were married once upon a ...
Author: aprilgarner1
Throw Me a Rope ~ Climbing Out of the Depression Hole
Imagine you are running a track. You know it well because you jog it daily. You see where the cracks and potholes have grown. There’s grass creeping into ...
The Doldrums
When I was a kid, I wrote a lot of poetry, but this is the first one I've done in decades. If you are a poetry buff, a word of warning: this poem follows no rul...
The Fighter Still Remains
Back when my maternal grandfather was still here and the last of my living grandparents, I wrote, The Fighter Still Remains. With diabetes and heart problems, h...
Coffee with a Side of Blackmail
My morning was hijacked by an email. I was poking through my spam folder when I saw a message that appeared to be from myself but with a different email address...
Staying Friends: The Magic of Growing Closer Apart
Back in the college days I'd rather put a fork in my eye than admit I was wrong, but I walked away without another word. It's hard to defend yourself when you'r...
I’m a Complex Fellow, Unlikely to do Anything Twice
When we come home from vacation, I am fifty percent likely to unpack right away, put everything where it goes and start a load of laundry. The other fifty perce...
My Two Grandmothers
My two grandmothers were diametrical opposites. They got along okay on family vacations, but Grammy June sometimes discreetly turned down her hearing aids when ...
The Time I Drove a Motorcycle Through a House
When I was eighteen years old, I drove a motorcycle through the wall of our house. I wasn't actually riding the motorcycle, and it wasn't even running. How migh...
I’m NOT Fine ~Death to Small Talk
It turns out, it is a physical impossibility for anything other than "fine" to escape my lips. The clerk at the grocery store asked how I was, and I said, "fine...