Time to Fly

It's sunny and warm in Dayton, Ohio, this morning. A few lazy groups of clouds play poker and tell jokes in the sky. I'm cold in my hotel suite, but that's because I'm literally a slab of skin and bones. I'm alright, though. Cool indoor temps aren't enough to slay the beast today. It's the …

Get It In

The point is to get it in. It doesn't matter how slow; doesn't matter how fast. The point is to get it in. The simplicity of success is often overshadowed by lofty goals. Sometimes little things propel us as effectively as big things. The point is to get it in. Today, the point was to …

Feels Alright

I've been hung up lately. On what, I couldn't tell you, but I've been hung up just the same.  Luckily, whatever's causing this hang up has nothing to do with my abdomen or my body. In fact, the hang up has more to do with my writing than anything, which is a change; and one …

Yes

The clock says "11:40," but with the way the angled sun looks slanting in through my brother's patio door, I could be fooled into thinking it's 5:00. Really, there is no time. Nature doesn't abide by the second hand. Only the rhythms it creates when it gets moving. So, this morning, I got moving. To …

Rest My Head

I’m currently lying on a pink and white daybed in an old house on 53rd Ave in Cleveland. Taking a quick count, this is the seventh different piece of furniture I’ve called “home” since graduation in May. I’m sure if we all took a brief survey of where we’ve slept over the last five months …

Dreams

This is an exercise. Let's use simple sentences to describe our lives. All we need are subjects, and predicates to move them. We have our nouns. We have our verbs. We have our direct objects and indirect objects. We've got our adjectives and adverbs. We've got clauses and prepositional phrases. Let's take a giant literary …

Plantar Fascist

In 2007, while on an Alaskan cruise with my family, I had the horrible misfortune of tearing the soleus muscle in my right leg. I was using a leg-press machine to do calf presses and the muscle ripped from its head near the knee about halfway down fro where it inserts at the knee. Looking …