Tom

Different Days

While I don’t often find the use of the word “better” to be appropriate (I use “different” in its place), I certainly find this song completely in line with my own experience. I remember the […]

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Hug a Tree

I wasn’t always this way, but the last portion of my life has involved tree hugging. Lots of tree hugging. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hug a tree as often as I’d like. In […]

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Westward Ho!

There, the artist in me can sing his hallowed song while the man in me curses the blisters born upon his feet. There I can feel a hand on my back and a rhythm in each and every footfall.

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Coming Soon to Elephant Journal!! “Two Artists, One Heart” (A Mature Excerpt)

When I closed my eyes I could feel her bare breasts pressing firmly on my chest as my fingers worked magic through her hair, our tongues wrestling in the glow of a moon in full […]

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Love. Get Dirty.

That is love. Unreasonable, unconventional. Painfully beautiful. Like the mud puddle your parents told you not to play in, simply roll around in that stuff. Get dirty…

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You Always Get What You Ask For (Just Not Always The Way You Ask For It)

I just reviewed what I had wished for in 2014. At first, I chuckled at the things I had scribbled down late last year. I looked at the rather short list and snorted in an all-too-familiar […]

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