Trod Till Yer Clod

 
What is the difference if we toil?
After all, we end up soil!
Relax, give in, dare to dream!
What could happen? Anything!

Evan and the e-mail epiphany

Thousands of emails stacked up in his in-box – offers of no money down mortgages and discount Viagra, online catalogs for Oregon pears and offers from the panty-of-the-month club – these along with the newspapers piling in the grey carpeted hallway of his Jersey City rental, and the over-stuffed mail chute, were the only clues [...]

Eating Yourself To Eternity

 

 

Even before the spoon had dropped drunkenly from his slippery mitts into the dirty kitchen sink, he knew he had had more than enough. More than his fair share; certainly more than he needed.
 
One half gallon of premium, all natural, farm fresh butter pecan ice cream eaten right out of the carton with a too-small [...]

Peace Corps Take Two — Recollections of an RPCV

  
I remember trying to bathe in the musky dankness of the African outhouse at sunset during the dry season. Naked, dripping cool water onto the hot earth, I doused myself and listened to the sounds of the village just beyond the palm-frond privacy wall preparing for night to fall. I perched thin brown toes in [...]