Jan
22
The old saying is that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but get ‘em when they are a puppy and all bets are off. You can teach ‘em plenty. Cards for instance. It’s not easy, let me tell you. To understand why you only have to take a quick peek at their paws. […]
Jan
21
(first appeared at behindcloseddoorslitmag.wordpress.com on 2/15/2013) There are two kinds of itches. Don’t ask me what an itch is, I have no idea, but I do know there are two varieties. There’s the garden-variety itch that you scratch and that’s the end of it and then there’s the bouncing itch. The itch that when […]
Jan
20
(originally posted 8/15/2014) She had always believed that when she met the right man, he would uncover the real her. She wasn’t sure if someone told her this or if she read it in a book but she decided early on that it made sense in a fairy tale sort of way. From high […]
Jan
19
(originally posted 7/3/2014) I’m not a big fan of true stories but I’m going to make an exception and give this a go. There was this guy, name him whatever you’d like, and he grew up without a mom. This made him especially close with his dad and even when he got out of […]
Jan
18
(originally posted 1/20/2020) Today is always an awkward day. Martin Luther King Jr Day. Schools are closed. The Post Office is closed. All out of reverence for an influential civil right leader from the 60’s. A good thing right? How can anyone have an issue with this? The problem, as some see it, is […]
