Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back?

Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.

He was so far away now, or maybe he just looked distant because we were imaging different things for our future.

I did have a friend, ' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you, ' the Wally replied.

There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly,

I had seen the few things I cared about forget me seamlessly. I had seen the life I never really fit into heal up around my absence like a wound scabbed over.

There's a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself.

There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.

Spirituality gives strength of spirit.

down unlit, unmarked & forgotten roads of REASON & PURPOSE

I serve the God of Isaiah 45:7 so when the darkness comes who gets your praises?

If he didn't have Ronnie already in his arms he'd have assumed she'd just opened the door...and aged a few years. Wow, he thought in surprise, she's going to be hot when we hit fifty.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century.

God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.

My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.