TWELVE      The big day had arrived and I just couldn’t calm the butterflies flitting around in my innards. Truth is I didn’t want to.  The arrival of the flight from Dallas/Fort Worth had just been announced. Am I going to be able to keep myself from jumping up and down like a ten year […]

Brad has been celibate ever since his wife left him, twenty plus years ago. He, Colin, Bob and Vic are all celibate, but none of them are committed to it except they all know they want nothing to do with a relationship unless it is ordained …now there’s a strange word, only in that I never use it”

I am seeing a huge wall made of large concrete blocks and each block has inscribed on it the name of every religion we’ve ever heard of; this is the wall that surrounds an inner garden that keeps the adherents of each of those religions from entering this garden which is shrouded in a brilliant, soft, shimmering golden mist.