Tag Archives: aging

Old Blue Eyes

Posted on July 5, 2016 by

Toritto in 1982 at40 No, this is not a post about Frank Sinatra! If you were lured here under false pretenses as a lover of Sinatra please accept my apologies.  If you are interested in why I picked the title … Continue reading →

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Patience and Prudence

Posted on January 18, 2016 by

A re-post from a year ago. At a corner table of a Wendy’s an old woman sits every morning bent over her paper, her coffee and half eaten egg patiently awaiting further attention. In the banality that is old age … Continue reading →

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Super Bowls, David and the Passage of Time

Posted on January 11, 2016 by

Super Bowl Fifty will be played in several weeks.  Usually the NFL uses Roman numerals to designate the game – Super Bowl L – but apparently this year the league decided too many of us dolts don’t know enough about … Continue reading →

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25th High School Reunion

Posted on January 1, 2016 by

I saw her at the ’84 reunion a little older, a little grayer, the first fine lines on her porcelain face;   inhabiting the body of a stranger while here in the yearbook we are all preserved; the teen beauty … Continue reading →

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That’s All There Is

Posted on December 14, 2015 by

Watching toddlers frolic at the shore with squirt guns, building sand castles under the watchful eyes of their beautiful MILF mothers sitting nearby in sun hats moist in the heat, beads of sweat collecting in swells and creases, I realized … Continue reading →

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Going Home

Posted on December 3, 2015 by

You go back to the place you grew up and find it’s changed houses and bars that are no more the ones still standing,  unrecognizable and you see her now, the teen beauty of your youthful dreams a cocktail waitress … Continue reading →

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Running With Stars

Posted on November 20, 2015 by

I am nothing I do not exist I am invisible with no Facebook page no Twitter follows Does anyone know I’m here? Hello? in the vastness that is space and time how many thinking beings have lived and died forgotten? … Continue reading →

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