According to National Geographic News,
“The worst of Ike’s damage was caused by its huge storm surge, a mound of water pushed ashore by the storm’s winds.”
Like everyone else out there in TV-land, I can’t help but get drawn into the shadow box.  I watch.
As the old saying goes, “The medium is the message.”, which, loosely [...]

This is not a still life.  This is a person that must keep moving.
Where is his table and chair?  Where is his bed?  Winter is coming.

He says; “Please …” and “Thank you.” a lot.  This is his mantra.

We pass by him and he may even be invisible.
We tell ourselves why or why not.
We think we [...]

In the beginning, there was fire. Much later someone cooked up fireworks. We began to imagine we could scatter our hungry ghosts with the sound of our fury and light up the empty space with our hopes. You might say this is just bad poetry on my part. It [...]