Another Trip around the Sun (#2016)
(Excerpted from my memoir, “The Flying Caterpillar”, ABQ Press, 2013) As we get older and have more say in setting our own agendas, we...
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Matin (a poem by Ken McKeon)
It’s Christmas morning in Albuquerque and Ken’s poem “Matin” shares a good-hearted wish for a new morning to dawn on a tired world. Where...
Two is the Loneliest Number
“When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that...
Forrest Gump and Helen (by Pat Simmons)
Here are four short pieces written by Pat Simmons. I know Pat as a friend, writing buddy and the Executive Director of “Friends in...
Opportunities and Obligations.
It occurred to me this week that the distinction between “opportunity” and “obligation” is largely one of perspective. I awake each morning, and sometimes...