Cary I

Cary Have you the least idea how much hearing from you rocked my world? Life is on the downside of the roller coaster right now. things are happening rather quickly. I leave my first professional job on friday, thank god, they were only just beginning to annoy me. I have a second interview a half … [Read more…]

Dale & Dad: Dinner and Vodka

It was hard for me to realize that this person at the end of the table was my father.  I didn’t say anything to him, I let the crowd my sister had invited do all the chattering.  I didn’t feel like talking if I didn’t have something important to say.  My sister had invited her … [Read more…]

Dale in College

  Crossed Signals ME:  long brown hair, skater in red plaid flannel. YOU: shaven blonde, nose ring and great green eyes. you had a coffee, I, a dropped jaw. Stared at you, can’t forget you. Can I buy your next Java? call.  #786. -The number’s 555-PUMP. Waking.  I turned over and shoved my face into … [Read more…]

For Daddy

For Daddy. Sit down, sit deeply into me and wait for I have only begun the fight as it needs to be. I have been waiting confrontation in finality fantasies can no longer exist this has now become reality the only thing which cannot be changed. My god, my demon I have fought you for … [Read more…]

General Farm

It’s funny how life brings me back again to check myself.  How all the people who are important to me come back.  Or are they important to me because they come back?  I am on the phone with Pele.  Again.  It hasn’t changed  We go on, as we always do, talking ourselves through life.  All … [Read more…]

D—-

D—-, you’re dangerous. This seems dangerous. But it’s not. My wife and I have an understanding. Then why will neither of us sit this way unless we’ve been drinking? That has nothing to do with F——. It was a good point. It didn’t. In the house it seemed there were no human sounds at all. … [Read more…]

Shaune

Hey there Shaune, So, I have to tell you now, for fear that even this far in advance, you may have plans.  I will be home for a few days…July 29th-Aug 6th.  So…yeah.  I’d like to see you.  That’s truly an understatement.  And of course, if your idea of fun is helping me get my … [Read more…]

Kendra

Hey you.  Been a long time I’d say.  How are things?  How is Caitlin?  Is she huge?  I actually got to meet her some almost a year and a half ago.  Geez, time flies.  I’m still out in California, surving out what feels like a sentence.  Except I can’t tell how long it’s going to … [Read more…]

Jackie

Jackie. Hey there, how’s it going?  I figure a letter’s an original idea, considering the Sunday chats.  So I’ve been living I suppose.  I know I wasn’t overly enthused on the phone the other day,  family matters have been cluttering my mind lately.  They’ll resolve themselves over time, as with everything.  Work has been so … [Read more…]

Kelly

Hey Kelly, I’m sorry, I know I’m a terrible correspondent.  Life has been.  That’s about all I can say for it.  San Francisco might as well be a million miles away for all it takes me to get back home now and again.  Work is going well, at least I have no real reason to … [Read more…]