Category: wandering mind
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"Don't forget my senior discount. I'm older than I look"
God it smells good this morning. It’s cool and sprinkling and I’m getting a small cold, but even through the snot the eucalyptus and sage brush and dirt was suddenly lifted as the heat lifted and for a small second I was reminded of the empty desert, not the city desert. And then I got…
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Meet Mazda "Mazie" or "Maz" for short
Well, our little fighting orphan made it through the night. She’s being bottle-fed every three hours, so it’s like we have a real baby almost. Pat’s all over that part while I’m at work. Yay Pat! We took her to the vet last night and they said other than being a little cold, a little…
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Shall we name him Mazda?
Yesterday, Pat went to a coffee shop here and got really strange looks from a woman who worked there. She was outside on her break and heard strange noises coming from Pat’s car. “Do you have kittens in there?” She asked him. While we were away, a stray cat decided to give birth in his…
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You get what you pay for
God, I slept well last night. My head sunk deep into my pillow like the worm hole to dreamland lay on the other side of my ear. And it was open, not charging nominal fees. It’s hard to find free places such as these anymore. I suppose it’s because you’re never sure what kind of…
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The boys
I spent my long weekend like this: Demolition Derby, Flagstaff Breweries, a hike in the San Francisco Mountains where if you look long and far enough the South Rim of the Grand Canyon hides itself as any other distant mountain range. I love these boys. Baby Liam and Yohanes. Both sons of Pat’s cousin. Yohanes…
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Two adjusting gringos
Every once and a while I have to look out the high-rising windows of my downtown office, take a deep breath and say “This is my life now.” Each blue-glass building like a gate pole leading to different streets and opposite directions; steel and stucco on either side of me. I wanted this but have…
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Crazy train
What happens when a crotchety old man (who also has cancer and a walker) meets a Hispanic man sitting on the floor of a train car meets a big black woman who just wants to get to work in peace? And, what the hell, throw in a businessman holding 64 hamburger buns on his lap.…
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Phoenix's foot fetish
I’ve had more conversations with strangers about my shoes than anywhere else on the planet. I’m pretty much the coolest. Some guy yelled “nice chucks!” even though the aren’t real chucks and some other guy originally from Portland asked me if they were sneakers and how he’d never seen any shoes like that down here.…
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Up from below
Meet my new sink pal. Our friendship was fairly quick, but I found him trying to nibble off a dirty knife in the sink and then go down the drain, so I caught him in an upturned duck glass and made him think about what he did and how short his life might be and…
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Gum … or new friends?
I’ve been going through poems the past week.5 and have noticed that many of them are twofers i.e. what in my mind for so long was one poem, is in fact two. The ease of splitting them is actually really awesome because it means I’m in an accepting mode and am no longer mashing things…