So, as it were, I found myself wandering the streets of this magnificent northwest city. Why? I was tired but no sleep would come to me. I had been writing a book and I came to a place where the two main threads collided with each other … and exploded to bits. You know, when… Continue reading Walking at Midnight
Gennesaret Press announced Monday theupcoming release of Saving Arapahoe,the third book in the Johnny StevensPioneer Adventures series.The setting is western Nebraska in 1878.This 1st-person story is based on lettersand stories from the author’s great-grand-father when he was a 12-year-old boy.The Indians and pioneers didn’t always see eye-to-eye, and that led to some harrowing experiences! Even so, great friendships… Continue reading Saving Arapahoe
A prayer of David. Teach me your ways, O LORD,that I may live according to your truth!Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you.With all my heart I will praise you, O LORD my God.I will give glory to your name forever,For your love for me is very great. You have rescued… Continue reading Psalm 86:11-13
Ahem!Become celebratory dictators.Enjoy frozen glasses having individual jam kerosenelemondade melting nicely on phony quicksand, raisingstylish turmoil undervery woeful xylophonesyawning zealously.
A desparation is in the air—I guess it’s always been there to some extent—that I don’t rememberseeing as a child. Maybe that’s just because children don’t think about stuff like that. Thereis the ever-increasing hum of a social consciousness that drives us in despair for the need to repair ourbodies, and thus our lives, so… Continue reading Living Forever?
Not the Victory, but the Action. Not the Goal, but the Game. In the Deed the Glory. – Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, NE
I’ve discovered over the past (nearly) twenty-four years of Parkinson’s Disease that I really don’t know what to expect next. Well, that’s not entirely true. I have learned in the past couple of years that old PD people get the same ailments that every other old person gets. (As an aside, on getting old and… Continue reading What’s Happenin’ Man?
Apex, North Carolina, is a modest town—or at least it proudly thinks it is. There are somegood people in Apex. But, like any growing burb, Apex has its rough sorts, its tough sorts, its gruff,grammar-challenged sorts. Like any other citizen consumed with worry for our withering way withwords, I do my duty. I am a… Continue reading Grammar Friday
Ring! Ring! Ring! “Uh, hello. Who is this and uh … dost thou knowest that of which ye speaketh?” “What?” screeched a familiar, old, raspy voice. “Aunt Ruth? Is that you?” I asked, mildy annoyed. My clock was displaying 2:14 a.m. “My voice may be familiar, but it’s not old and it’s not raspy, my… Continue reading My new first grammar question
ABBVIE 951I’ve been involved in this clinical trial for the last three years (since the beginning).What is it? Aggvie-951 is the injection of the drug that turns into dopamine (when it crosses the blood-brain barrier). The injection is sub-cutaneous—that is, just below the skin—and somehow these little dopamine-wannabes end up in the blood stream and… Continue reading ABBVIE-951 Clinical Trial