People You Know By Heart

--IT STARTED WITH A WHISPER I just finished Bud Smith’s fantastic poetry collection, “Everything Neon.”  In many ways, the poem...

--EVEN THE STARS FALL FOR YOU …How was your weekend? Where I live, we had stellar weather.  You reside in a place where it can ...

--SOMETIMES GOODBYE IS A SECOND CHANCE         Facsimile She worries about becoming an imitation of herself, of having ...

--THE MORE YOU IGNORE ME, THE CLOSER I GET …Unlike a lot of people, I’ve never been a huge Beatle’s fan. Yet this year marks ...

  --A LOT OF TIMES IT’S DIFFICULT TO FEEL NECESSARY …We get a lot of rain in the Seattle area, but March was a doozy and we bro...

--MISSING YOU IS A THING THAT I DO …I am surrounded by books.  An L-shaped unit behind me is filled with over a hundred of them...

--YOU LOOK BETTER THAN EVER.  REALLY, YOU DO. …Well, look what we have here: a weekend. Over the years weekends have meant ...