The Gods Must Be Crazy (to my friend Sarah Leyrer)

I remember our brief time together, Sharing yet another bike adventures, Whooping glorious to the sun, The sky, To Mother Earth, And to the magic of avocados. Your go-to-food, I forgot to ask you, Did you ever watch that movie? You know, that one with the obscure reference of the Coca Cola bottle dropping to …

No Longer Maintaining

I'm writing to you as a parent of a child who lives with mental illness. At age 7, my daughter was a cheerful,inquisitive and playful child. She ran around outside and was loud and boistorous. I encourage her joie de vivre. Like many parents of active children, I indulged her spontanity and creativity. I enrolled …

Saying I love you is a reminder that nothing is permanent

Did you love someone so deeply that you never saw an end to this line? Were you confident in your trust that forever meant for keeps? Childhood sayings and the knowledge that waking up means the dream ends and we all end up facing the day, the quiet of a morning dawn, the breathing of …

Valentine

To those out there exposing their hearts on this day, I give you some considerations to take, Valentine is but one day out of the year, Consider the courage to expose your heart to someone near and dear, 364 days out of the year, This brutal expression of love whether forlorn or not, is but …

The Art of Patience

The day before Christmas eve, I had a major bike accident.  My bike bag straps got wrapped up in my front wheel and it threw me over the handlebars and in a split second, everything changed. I remember that day vividly, the burning sensation to the left side of my face as I hit the …