[+]Aaroneous Monk[+]

I feel like it has been one of my major accomplishments this past year to get Elias to run Cross Country (XC) in middle school.  It is ...

What if God was one of us, an infinitely older man seriously tired of our shit? I certainly hope not, but I would not bla...

From about 10 years old to 50 years old (my current age) I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time, money, and resources on collectin...

“Billy stayed in the wagon when it reached the slaughterhouse, sunning himself.  The others went looking for souvenirs.  Later on...

We’d spent a week on the beach: me, my wife, my daughter, and my son.  Incidentally, we’d moved to a new house the week prior to...

Feeling listless on Europa, Jupiter looming large in the sky. A Ransomed traveler  asking the what? and why? But there is ...

He was 4 when we rolled out the new rug, the moving boxes cut and connected into a  huge cardboard fort with many windows, Gr...

It was 30 years ago today that King’s X dropped their second album “Gretchen Goes to Nebraska.”  The year was 1989 and I was a ne...

Aaron has come unstuck in time, much like Billy Pilgrim at the beginning of chapter two in Slaughterhouse-Five.  There’s a kind of...

A soldier for Uncle Sam but I do not know who I am Not that it even matters when the bullet flies, splatters Maki...

The sleeve was gone Coffee cup hot Making it hard to hold Fingers burning But Like Kwai Chang Caine I bravely...

Yesterday after work I had to go pick up my son at a friend’s house who lives a good distance north of us off a busy highway.  In ord...

Looking at a picture of me and my son  on an escalator in the DC subway system  unexpectedly brings a kind of epiphany:   ...

If my tongue were blue  I’d be locked in a zoo with nothing to do  but sit and stew  in monkey poo.    In lieu, my ...

When my sister’s back  was crooked, not straight, the Shriners came  not a minute too late. They trundled forth In thei...

It was the last day of school and he figured he wouldn’t waste his time sleeping for the rest of the summer.  Even as his parents drop...