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Author: Tripping Raul

  • Thinkings

    My best thinking time is when I’m trying to figure out what to do with my hair in the morning. Typically, for some bizarre reason, that’s when Randy pops into my head and me having to invade his home with Aunt Patti when she was visiting once because her bladder…

  • I di’ ‘int!

    Jeremy said he hadn’t noticed after I apologized this morning for yesterday’s erratic behavior. Now, if neither Scott nor Bernie nor Kristen noticed, I shall be duly amazed. I quite recall, through the tunnel of semi-comprehension, Scott and Kristen at least staring at me with furrowed brows, their heads cocked to…

  • Peril of Personality

    I’ve crawled on hands and knees across the gray, gelatinous floor, being careful not to slosh the fluids beneath my palms, knees and toes for fear of the sound it might make. The wall, too, is made of a spongy, pitted tissue and slightly gives way as I carefully scoot…

  • Contorting

    Standing in the fading light in the farthest bedroom in the house, I was talking to DSII, but then came to realize that the silhouette in the dusk was not DSII, just a boy his height and build with eyes that looked a little too flat and glowed a little…

  • Back

    Sitting on the chaise lounge, sunglasses on, looking out at the clear blue waters and white sandy beaches of Half Moon Cay, I knew I had to get out there . . . soon. I glanced down at the book on my lap and sighed. Ten more pages is all.…

  • En route

    Yay!!! I escaped, I escaped, I escaped! Hmmmmm. Why doesn’t it feel like it yet? I already miss my babies. Well, maybe it’s cuz I’m still in Denver . . . at DIA? Ya think?

  • Anything goes

    “Wow,“ he sits on the edge of the bed staring forward. “Yeah,” says the other. “She is PISSED!!!” “Uh-huh.” They don’t look at each other when they talk, staring instead directly forward at a silhouette pacing, pacing, pacing. “You know, it’s the law of things, if you’re too nice you…

  • Um … seriously …

    Sigh.

  • Snow!

    Watching my sons shovel the walks and the driveway and then have to re-shovel portions because their intermittent snowball fights just keep redistributing the snow. Smiling. I love them!

  • Decision

    I edited a ‘Decision’ story about whether smoking is a major risk factor for vascular disease and the premise of these particular articles is to say “On One Hand,” and make the case for, and “On the Other Hand,” and make the case against the article topic. But on that…