“Nephilim” – article for TAPSparamag’s June 2008 issue December 15, 2009

A shorter, edited-for-space article appeared in TAPSparaMagazine. Below is the full, unedited article….. Somewhere in our darker past, before the days of modern psychological discipline and scientific advance, we, the human race, believed that our life’s fortunes, illnesses, woes and serendipitous happenstances were firmly rooted in the spiritual and the supernatural. As we evolved our [...]

Ode to Cremation….. December 15, 2009

Y’know – and here’s some phenomenal profundidty – I am not as young as I used to be. I am on that delicate cusp between youth and encroaching old age; teetering ever so precariously along the edge of middle-age-dom, one foot raised and poised for the next step into that great vacuous space before me, [...]

Acquired Wisdom….. December 12, 2009

I’ve been told that I have lived 39 past lives. When I do the math – calculating each of my past lives as having had a somewhat average lifespan – I figure I am somewhere between 1500 and 2200 years old. Soul-wise, that is. Of course, my figuring is based on the assumption that those [...]

Dad Reckoning November 23, 2009

While I was growing up I put very little thought into the kind of dad I was someday going to be. I was too busy daydreaming and doing the stuff that young boys do in their prepubescent years. Back then, I foresaw myself entering early manhood as the amalgam – perhaps even the embodiment – [...]

Writer’s Block….. November 15, 2009

Some days, I just haven’t a clue. There are no magic words, no prattling prose, no passionate reverie. I look out my window. The sun crests the brown horizon, it’s shafts broken by the novemberene mosaic of branches, yet no words flood the echoing cesspool of my brain – no words play hopscotch off the [...]

Living Backward….. April 23, 2009

I have often been accused of being over-analytical. Pshaw, i say. heh. Actually, I think i am too damn complex. I sometime dig so deep to gain understanding, that I get lost in my search. However, I am coming to a place where I have started asking myself: does my analyzing provide any useful insights, [...]

I am NOT Brian Jacques March 18, 2008

Hey Folks! As the title of this blog alludes, I get lots of queries as to whether or not I was influenced by, or am familiar with the Redwall series by Brian Jaques. The simple answer to that question is: Yes and No. While I am familiar with Mr. Jaques’ titles, and the cover art [...]

A Little Tam O’Hare History….. March 18, 2008

I was just writing to a friend, recounting the highlights of this process, and I wanted to share some of it here with you… if you can indulge me the length… The Rollicking Adventures of Tam O’Hare has been a long time in the making – nine years, to be precise. I started the book [...]

3:00AM September 15, 2007

All night there was silence in the dark house, Shadow met shadow, the clock chimed the hours; The cat, abated from her nocturnal roust, Lay sleeping, feet twitching as she stalked in the bowers Of her dreams. Quiet upon quiet where mind meets the dark, Are remnants of the light you leave in this place; [...]

A Nipple By Any Other Name….. August 15, 2006

Why do men have nipples? *blink* *blink* I have been vexed by this question a lot of late. Recently, I was in the company of some friends at a local Irish pub that I have grown to call my own, staring blankly into my fifth Guinness as they all talked amongst themselves. In my inebric [...]

Irreplaceable Moments of Time….. August 31, 2005

I am overwhelmed this morning by the irreplaceable moments of time. Those fleeting brevities that go by without the slightest notice as I pass through the mist that will someday comprise the sum of my life. Just last week, Amanda (everyone called her “Beaner”), the twenty-one-year-old daughter of some dear friends who owned the neighboring [...]

Foxes and Gangbangers….. August 9, 2005

I have a friend who lives in a small town in the Oregon mountains. She had to suddenly leave a conversation we were having earlier today, to go help a friend who’s cows had gotten out of their fencing. I wished my friend “good cow hunting,” and dispatched her with a “yippie-kai-ay!” As I hung [...]

Is there a ‘Will’ in the House…? July 12, 2005

The character of love has been on my mind a lot lately – my BIGmind, not my little mind (uhmm… nevermind). Anyway, not “character” as in a persona, per sé, but the stuff that comprises the thing. Love is most certainly not an emotion. Sure, it can involve emotions when it takes on a more [...]

Two prerequisites….. July 5, 2005

I am convinced that there are two things that make a lasting relationship: Thing #1: Compromise Thing #2: Vulnerability Without these, any relationship is doomed before it begins. Cheers!

Disappointment with God… and Friends… May 5, 2005

In recent months I’ve gone through an unbelieveable amount of devastating, emotional shit in my life. My not-so-usual response left me in a temporal, uncharacteristic depression and an a-typical abrasive moodiness that was the outer manifstation of inner turmoil – despite my wrongly thinking I was handling myself with a modicum of grace and tact. [...]