Tag: life

  • Naivety

    When I think about the “N” word, Naivety, I get a little pissed off. In my young adulthood (which lasted well into my ‘old’ adulthood), I would always get embarrassed when I thought about the times that I’d been naïve. I’m pretty sure there have been MANY of those times, because my naivety existed longer…

  • A Father’s Love

    Today’s #bloganuary question is: “What is the earliest memory you have?” I thought about this quite a bit today. First and foremost, I was excited to do the illustration because I suck at hands and I wanted to get some practice by working on this girl’s pensive pose. I’m learning that it works best to…

  • Lost at Sea

    A Haiku Darkness spreads its veil, As far as the eyes can see, Lights flicker, then hide. Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge: Flicker & Eyes.

  • Learning to Fly

    Learning to Fly

    Stories We Tell A Fictional Series After my mother passed away, I was totally without family. I never knew my biological father, and my mother had no relatives to speak of. She never talked about her past, so I had no idea if I had any family who were living – or where they might…

  • The Release

    The Release

    Stories We Tell A Fictional Series When Delilah was about three or four, I lost her in the grocery store. I found her – thank God – and the whole ordeal makes for an amusing anecdote, but that’s not the story I want to share at the moment.  After I told Levi what had happened,…

  • Trouble in Paradise

    Trouble in Paradise

    Stories We Tell A Fictional Series It’s not necessarily a good thing when the people you love think too highly of you. Dizzy always did, but that kind of changed the night of the spin the bottle game – when I broke down and told her that I had just as many fears as she…