What Crosses My Mind

  • Why Do I Keep This Site?

    If someone were to deep dive into my writing they would probably have a reaction of concern. The truth is this is just an avenue to express my frame of mind. Sometimes I am really flying and other times simply fleeing from my fears. I need everyone to know that this is just an examination…

  • Twenty Years Ago

    It was around twenty years ago this last couple of months that I had my last drink. I remember telling my kids how old they both were when I chose to quit drinking. They have now spent the better part of their years with a sober dad, and I feel really good about that. I…

  • Three Titles

    A Time To Wallow – Part One It’s when everything seems to drift by, motives of the day remain unclear, like a passenger train traveling on rails, though stuck in a one way journey. Wishing for a surprise inside the next tunnel our eyes aimed on the quiet reality outside our fast moving window. When…

  • Exploring Purpose In My Writing

    I’ve written heavy stuff lately. My motivation is to put aside all the filters and dive in. Going back and looking it over, I am aware it’s enough to scare people, but to be truthfully honest, that’s only meant to be part of the point. It is not to simply scare people, as much as…

  • Watching The Sunrise

    Simple really. Nothing complicated about watching its spectacular image rising over the horizon. Makes you wonder for a moment, just a thought, how small we really are, and how magical is the sunlight on a summer’s day. Watching the stars overnight and falling asleep in the sky, a peek of morning sunshine, lights up the…

  • She Belonged On Stage

    At least those were her words when Becky returned to an audition after years of being away. I’ve changed her name and productions to protect her anonymity. I was first introduced to Becky in a production of Mary Poppins when she played a significant role. She was someone who came out of nowhere, they usually…

  • Writing Peace

    Suddenly taken by the normalcy of error, would wonder speculation that part of fear. An indecision of the mind We are tortured within a wonder when the brain might matter negotiating my state of mind. Found in the moment am I this facade this fraud this foul this ill-wrought creature of habit some disregard There…

  • First Days

    There is a certain pull a potential a need to feel that rotating wheel of some significance the quest, we guessed, in first days the moment of truth perhaps or better suggested that moment when opportunity strikes that initial fever pitch ~ Let’s hang on gonna be a roller coaster doesn’t mean you’ll fall off…

  • Changing Paths – I Still Do

    We all know what we believe in the moment as we breathe the air around us would our lives begin to rush beyond the truth of what is love, what lays within our heart, how does the soul feel sweet reckoning. ~ I have experience in the truth of changing paths listened to fear tried…

  • Truth

    I wonder if it is true people have epiphany while sitting by the lake I wonder if it is true a life can only become consumed with happiness. I wonder if it is true civil disobedience may change our lives. I wonder if it is true no matter what we do, there will always be…