Spinning My Wheels
Spinning my wheels with mud flying and splattering and I'm all wet and dirty and mucky. I want to spin my wheels until I've dug a hole so deep that…
Entries from my very first blog, The Open Book
I Go To Sleep And Send Myself Into The Land Of Dreams
When He is around I do not sleep. He snores. But when I am alone, and sleeping, I live in the land of night dreams. I spend my nights soaring…
I Spend My Days Searching
Searching and searching and searching. I never rest. When I try to rest, my mind goes crazy with thinking. My mind goes crazy with realizing what my life really is.…
My Father Loved To Take Long Rides In The Car
It was freedom to him, to be in the car, to be behind the wheel. It was probably the only place in the world where he felt in control. Where…
I Combine The Gentleness And Ferocity Of My Nick-Namesake
I attack life with a voracious hunger. I will not let this jungle win the fight of survival that I participate in every day. I will conquer the obstacles that…
Sometimes I Scare Myself
Sometimes the power of the ideas that invent themselves inside my corporeal container are more than I can bear. Thoughts, ideas, poems, paintings, they all flow in and through me…