Category Archives: Writing

The crop duster danced through the Delta sky in a graceful aerial ballet.  The pilot hit the button, sprayed the soybeans and yanked hard back on the stick.  The crop duster quickly went skyward just before the yellow Air Tractor … Continue reading →

Life is like water. I wants to seek the easiest path as it flows downhill.  It naturally wants to wind its way around obstacles as it flows from the source to the sea.  But the lives, like water, that encounter … Continue reading →

On June 6, 2011, in the corner of a forgotten nursing home, sat a forgotten man who was desperately trying to forget. The old man looked around at the room; it was a cloudy blur. Cataracts were taking his one … Continue reading →

I’m sitting on a screened-in porch on the third floor, overlooking a bay while wind whispers through the tops of the pines.  Three squirrels are playing in the trees, jumping from pine to pine in a rodent version of Russian … Continue reading →

Captain Arthur Grogan’s last living memory was of burning flames licking his face.  Anti-aircraft artillery had hit his F4U-1D Corsair while he was strafing an airfield over the Japanese island stronghold of Rabaul. Fire. Smoke. Blood. Pain. Blackness and then … Continue reading →

“Ask not what you did to our cousin, ask what we’re going to do to you.”