Sometimes I experience the sensation of expansiveness. It happens most often just as I am waking up or drifting off. The best thing about this sensation is its optimism. This sensation tells me everything is as it should be. It’s all good. I can describe it as a pot boiling over. I’m the pot and…
Category: serious
Paper or Shoes
In the town where I was raised there were two main industries, paper and shoes. In most families one or both parents worked in either the paper mills or the shoe factories. Kids grew up and often followed in their parents footsteps; paper or shoes. Our family was a shoe family. My father was an engineer…
Chicken Dilemma. What Would You Do?
I know the government is in the middle of a crisis, but can we talk about me? I need your advice. Three young men in my town were recently arrested for breaking into cars and vandalizing public property. All are legal adults and were booked on felony charges My dilemma is that I know one…
Writing Practice
He checked the space where he had twice come across the she-cub, traversing a half mile around the area, until he was satisfied he was alone and would be able to move about freely. The cub had complicated his scouting trips. He knew she was of the pack but was not yet sure who she…
Chicken…The Hobo of the Internet
Hi World, I checked in with an old internet friend’s blog recently and she wrote to me, “Chicken, where the hell have you been for the last 15 months?” She has never been one to mince words. It was a fair question. I wrote back and filled her in on all the real life stuff…
Chicken's Consigliere 