Going Alone

It’s nice getting old. There’s no age better than now, though I expect tomorrow might be better still. Sure, I’m a bit crippled with...

Today feels like waking up upon a great mountain. The clean, cold air up here is bracing. And the aching muscles of the climb to get here...

Poetry of a sort has joined me at the guitar. Nearly every evening, while Yumiko prepares dinner, I sit in the garden with a glass of red...

I cannot remember the last time I couldn’t sleep. My nights have become like the nights of my youth. Hard asleep at bedtime and fast...

It’s time to sell my motorcycle. I don’t want or need it anymore. My riding days are done. Never again do I wish to ride. That part of my...

Parenthood now reminds me of the childhood years, in particular the school events where our kid was an actor in the play, participating...

My well being lately seems balanced on a log. I’m like a young boy crossing over a stream on a fallen tree. Altogether, I feel pretty...

A dead man washed up on the beach this week. He’d been out there a long time. It was those big waves, I think. The ones that scare me....

We’ve new neighbors. A young family. There’s a small boy and a little white dog named Bunny. They radiate such energy and illumination!...

Intervention! Yumiko and I were intervened, stopped in our tracks, prevented by our daughter from making a big mistake. I was sitting in...

Yesterday went well. My surgery is complete and I should know more in a week. My thinking is still active though I’ve little now to write...

Surgery today. I’m having a growing tumor removed from my abdomen, along with its friend, another bump growing nearby. This is the season...

I’m nervous about today. Today’s the darn day. The day we might decide to buy that old house in Japan. Picking a place to buy now feels...

Another sound night of sleep. Deep, dark and dreamless. A sleep like death is such a delight to awake from. Morning after the deepest...

I was up late last night to tour the outside of the farmhouse with Yumiko and her family. The experience was strange and tactile. Like...

So bold! So cavalier! Yumiko astonishes me with her courage. As we move together into our empty-nest years I turn repeatedly to find...

Yumiko went into the office yesterday and came home like a battered soldier returning from the front. The Los Angeles commute was a...

I awoke this morning with the sharpest mind I can remember. Where did this come from? Clarity of thought like my twenties. Halcyon days...

I stood in the ocean yesterday genuinely afraid. I was all alone. There was nobody nearby. The lifeguard towers were all empty. And very...

A summer without Emily. I guess we’d better get used to it, seeing as our life courses may soon diverge. But Emily will always have a...