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Author: Tripping Raul

  • Sheep pajamas

    A most curious and delightful thing happened last night. I was rinsing off after my workout and D informed me that he and EBD were going to run errands. DS was already off with his girlfriend and so I was immediately struck: I would be alone! Exhilarated, I quickly dried…

  • All light and hope

    I’ve not had much to say all day. But when at last I had enough energy to talk again, I said, “I’ve probably never said it, but how twisted is it that every time there’s a horrible tragedy, my brain screams, ‘my children, my children!’ They’re not my children, they’re…

  • Cream

    “In a white room,” said Eddie Pells … “With black curtains,” . . . Cindy added. “At the station,” I said, not even looking up from my keyboard. I had that once. Make that twice. We’re standing on the corner of 14th and Lawrence. Charlotte, standing taller than us, says,…

  • Opening Day

    It’s the Colorado Rockies’ Opening Day in the team’s 20th year, and so naturally I’m thinking about my friend Terry. I miss Terry. If he were still here I have no doubt we’d be sharing season tickets, betting on games and whether the Rockies would or wouldn’t finish over .500.…

  • Men on toilets

    So, like, at the Rocky before it went belly up and even before it moved to the new building, when I would go into the ladies’ room and a man would go into the men’s room at the same time sometimes I would sit down on the john and a…

  • Apocalypse

    “Did I spell it right?” “Think so, though I’m not sure I’m the one you should ask.” “True, so . . . . oh, great sage, what about these freaking dreams?” “Which dreams?” “I’m sitting in the woodlands on an uninhabited island, uninhabited except for the few of us survivors,…

  • The pitfalls of having a blond mom

    Spring break! I took Friday off so the boys and I could conjure up something to do between their work and social schedules. We were free and clear by 3:30 p.m. and as the boys showered and change their clothes, I shout out activity options. Slim pickings, until . .…

  • Break it down . . .

    It’s pretty simple, really. I am impressed by your journey, your calling and the struggles you have gone through to get where you are at. I see the child inside you and your playful soul and your fears and doubt. And I adore that. I am not impressed by who…

  • Grandma’s pillow cases

    I change the pillow cases, at first tossing aside two allegedly clean ones that are yellowed by time because they look bad. But then I smell one and it smells like my Grandma Bland’s sheets and it’s been so very long since I’ve smelled that and then so does the…

  • Strangers

    I was recalling earlier today the woman in the waiting room at the doctor’s office when my mom frantically hustled me in for the fever and abdominal pain I was suffering from at age 16. The pain came and went, but the sickness showed all over me. There were many…