Sep 222009
 

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aYAUE6is7I] The tent had collapsed in the blistering rain of the Outer Banks. Miles from any kind of light but our own and we just couldn’t stop laughing. Neither of us having any business setting up a tent.   Piling all our soaking stuff into the back seat. Didn’t take very long. We didn’t have […]

Sep 112009
 
The Wedding that Stopped Time

  Was that us?  Running through cool sand under 2:00 a.m. starry skies, clothes tossed along the way splashing into the sea then diving under the waves and coming up laughing shivering joy.   Was that us?   Not this time.   Aunts and Uncles, Moms and Dads, families you were born to, families you […]

Sep 112009
 
Thanksgiving for those lost to 9/11

  Let’s invite them all to the apartment for Thanksgiving. The first one they missed. That Thanksgiving we had when we were all so very young.   All of them who flew from the crumbling towers and the dust and the smell of chalky death. All of them who slammed into the Pennsylvania field. All […]