Don't Bury Me, I'm Not Dead Yet!
"You shouldn't have buried me...I'm not dead yet!" — Freddy Krueger, from *A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master" Sorry for the delay, folks--just got my router, so I can use the Internet while I'm here in my …
not yet
spring ahead awakened by photo's of dad's and uncles in my head family not mine searching for a feel good story dreams can't seem to find younger and much older pages of a calendar turned tossed some saved for another …
SSSSS: SSRI’s on a Plane”-Where’s Samuel L. Jackson When We Need Him?
"If God Is his Co-pilot, why worry if your Pilot is 'Listening to Prozac'?"--FAA Spokester TSA screeners at San Diego-Lindbergh Int’l Airport can touch your junk, but they better NOT make advances on your pilot’s Paxil. That’s what—in their infallible …
When Plants and Passion Collide
This is the first story I had published since I started writing on a regular basis, and am so flattered that Pat took the time to do a tiny edit on my original, and that she keeps it on her …
Gardens
I'm excited about tomorrow. Briercrest Park, La Mesa. San Diego Hort Society . The first garden tour of the season. link text I think this is my 10th season of garden tours in San Diego. I had never heard of …
do i deserve this
love felt so deep i search but find it's impossible to describe try fortunate blessed why me question do i deserve this worry it could all be taken far away i have seen evidence tears on this very page but …
My Little Kony 2012 Issue
Two weeks ago the Kony 2012 documentary exploded online, building tremendous awareness and support with over 80 million views. Along with its popularity, a debate emerged which has included a noticeable amount of criticism and backlash toward the campaign creators, …
Taking a Beach Walk...
South to Torrey Pines. Low tide, breeze out of the Northwest. Blue skies with haze on the horizon. Ocean sounds fill my ears with a continuous song of wind and sea, accented by the slap of large waves on the …
Turning Bread into Wine
Cornbread and biscuits. All the way home last night I was craving cornbread, butter and honey or good biscuits with butter and jam. I knew i was having the thawed out vegetable soup i made a few weeks ago -```weight …
when I first moved to Tijuana
I remember the night I moved to Tijuana. I had planned everything. I would rent a place at the beach. Live for a couple nights in the Gardens motel and find a small apartment for maybe two hundred dollars. As …
Daybreak Cinquain
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/27/21675/ click on picture to see a larger example of this poem
Magic of the Mirror and the Wind/EDIT
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/27/21673/ Your voice arrives fast 'or the sea so soft and coyly caring so i surrender my ear to your calming sharings * it was sweet as a dove's recollection cooing in branches of Green lovers trees a sweet soothing …
Indonesian Legendary Ship “KRI Dewaruci” Landed in San Diego!!!
Indonesian legendary Tall Ship KRI Dewaruci finally making stop at the Port of San Diego, California USA on March 16, 2012. This is a class A barquentine built by H.C. Stolcken Soch and originally constructed in Germany in 1932, but …
A Magical Journey in Rolando Village
On Monday March 25, 2012 held The 16th annual Rolando Street Fair. This event takes place from 10 am to 6 pm at Rolando Blvd. Sponsored by Rolando Community Council to bring neighborhoods more closer and to bring peaceful & …
ISLA CEDROS: AN EXOTIC ISLAND ADVENTURE IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD
Homeless Alien Kept a Diary
(Editor’s Note: all surviving pages from this diary were found by nine year-old Jiffy Krondinkle of Prairie Doom, Oklahoma, and they appear here with the permission of Jiffy’s parents, Kinky and Darfinia. Though their names might suggest that the Krondinkles …
Highway 80, first thoughts
I am old enough to remember when Interstate Eight was built over our back-country mountains. Before then, the main route east was what we now call Old Highway 80. That is the highway I recall traveling as a child. One …
The Year Of The Locust
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/mar/23/21493/ the year of the locust where does it lie 'neath seven years of dust mismanaged by it's imfamy there's no air of mystery within it's fine cocoon only willful savagery waits in darkest heat to bloom ravenously devouring as …
Due North for Hockey Memories
watching the Hockey games this weekend reminded me of a trip i had ...looked so forward to and will never forget to Canada as i rooted for Vancouver....my mind was flood with that day i arrived at the 49th parellel …