
I love fog. So when I biked the boards recently, I was pleased to see the pale veil over Long Beach shore. Hundreds of gulls nestled in the sand… …then rose, a […]
I love fog. So when I biked the boards recently, I was pleased to see the pale veil over Long Beach shore. Hundreds of gulls nestled in the sand… …then rose, a […]
The ladies exposed themselves to me. I saw them for what they were, stewards of our shore, picking up trash washed in by the tide. Angels, pure white-winged angels strode before me. […]
“Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.” (Agnes Sligh Turnbull) Do you like poems? There are some I don’t like, too much struggle. Many evoke awe, but we have to […]
It was not like shooting fish in a barrel, it was actually, shooting fish—from a barrel. I was a U.S. Marine Corps Cannoneer. We fired 95 lb explosive projectiles about a dozen […]
The beach was vast and empty, but for the shorebirds. Both east and west of me, they gathered like tidal pools of fluttering feathers. It was a sparkling October day, about sixty, […]
“The earth laughs in flowers” Ralph Waldo Emerson So does Lisa Wong-Esposito. It’s easy to walk and be lost in thought. Too easy. Too many thoughts. And so sad when so much […]
We’ve all turned the big one: 30 years old, forty, fifty? Well, I’ve turned the big 80 this week. And due to Covidtimes my daughter, Kathleen and her family helped me celebrate […]
Wear a mask and save another’s breath. Keep a distance and halt the spiral of death. Words to live by? An understatement. But we are social animals, we bipeds. So we adjust. […]
She said, “People tell me ‘it must be terrible being alone,’ well it’s not terrible being alone, what’s terrible is people telling me, ‘it must be terrible being alone’.” Â I heard this […]
Some days are magical, some might call them, “Heaven sent.” I’ve been struggling through these MORBID-COVID days, these police/protest-teargas days, these pooch-frightening fireworks days…and nights. As most of you know, when I […]
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