She went on to tell me about a previous job and eventually I shared one of my own. I sipped on my beer and kept at it all night – a bottle to help me cope with my unbalanced life. I contributed little to the conversation and was relieved when our shuttle bus finally picked … Continue reading
The changes Bob Dylan went through always amazed me. Sometimes it seemed as if he’d changed personalities whenever he changed his outfit. He refused to be labeled a folk singer, did his own thing, and became one of the greatest song writers we’ve ever known, in my opinion. It begs the question, why would we ever … Continue reading
ISIS, how do you deal with it? So many are up in arms that President Obama didn’t yet have a set strategy. We can’t help but get angry about beheadings or all the other atrocious things these sick animals do. Bomb the hell out of them. Wipe them off the face of the earth. Such scum … Continue reading
More than once I’d expressed to doctors that what I instinctively needed was to be sliced open and hosed down until my insides were as whistling clean as an infant’s; then maybe I could start my life over. As a last resort I signed up for a detoxification program offered by a vegan raw … Continue reading
Mother reading to her child from a children’s ecology book. Thus, a text even a child can understand. Mother – We live on a planet that rotates around the sun, creating a balanced system. The day is balanced by night, cold is balanced by hot, rainy and snowy days are balanced by sunny and dry … Continue reading
Setting: The small drab auditorium of an old elementary school or church. Our hero stands at the podium addressing a sorry-looking bunch of mild-mannered men hunched over in their metal folding chairs. Our Hero: Hi, I’m a recovering animal. A chorus of grumbling Hello’s and Welcomes bubble up like simmering lava. Our Hero: As most … Continue reading
I’ve thought for sometime that it must be difficult to be young and growing up these days in such uncertain times about the fate of the planet. Finally, the following video offers great hope in the possibility of reversing climate change, more proof that a holistic approach is needed in everything we do. Continue reading
Taylor’s Truck. Mal and Taylor dressed in hunting clothes while driving through the woods to their deer blinds. Taylor: There’s plenty of fish in the sea. Mal, scoffing: Haven’t heard that expression enough. Taylor: Cause it’s true, Mal. You just have to keep breaking out new lures and trying different spots until you find a … Continue reading
Or maybe I am. Who knows? I need to drop at least twenty pounds but my body refuses to budge, maybe because those cravings for my old favorite addictions keep coming back, and every once in a great while, I give in. My body is apparently at that age where months can pass by without … Continue reading
We put our snowshoes on and stepped down the wobbly tree-trunk steps of my brother Mike’s tattered, mouse-infested house, and trudged through the thick snow, past the wood piles and doorless outhouse (always a delight in mid-winter), and over the top of his abandoned vehicles – a few exposed windows peeking out from under the … Continue reading
