All this talk about health insurance has given me an opportunity to think about how it impacts my world and the people around me. Members of my immediate family are fortunate enough to be involved with systems that provide insurance. …

Today, my mailbox was stuffed with the usual supermarket advertisements and other wasteful uses of paper, glossy campaign postcards for various candidates and an official looking first class letter from the Department of Health and Human Services in Baltimore Maryland. …

Yesterday, I went on a walk from my apartment in University Heights to Hillcrest. My mission, was to buy a pound of coffee at Peets, my other goal was the opportunity of doing a good three mile walk. Generally, I …

I woke up remembering you were gone I could not find my breath I don’t do this very well this letting go of someone so familiar Tomorrow I will wake up again without your voice to tell me what to …

What is this feeling that comes as the seasons change? You know what I mean, it seems to affect everyone. As I get older, each month has a birthday or the anniversary of someone’s death. I remember getting annoyed with …

Since leaving home in 1996, I have lived primarily in major cities. Hong Kong, New York, Cologne, and some smaller ones, in the UK, and San Diego in California. Now I am beginning to consider moving back up North. I …

How many of us bother to stop and talk to our homeless neighbors? Sounds like an oxymoron doesn’t it? We do have neighbors and when we get to know them, when we take the time to know them, we discover …

It's not your every day idea Some folks will be put out, but this county's going to pieces this no one has a doubt. So one step at a time as my Grandma used to say is how to solve …

Clatter to the cart people, there but for fortune go I Clatter outside the glass door No patio here to buffer The poet wakes up as the old Push noisy carts down the alley Gathering yesterdays Remains traded for food …

I just sent an email to the governor asking him to consider throwing a “rent” party for the State of California. I thought for the guest list, he could invite people with bloated incomes like actors, sports players, owners of …

Yesterday, about 5:30PM I was driving up Adams Avenue. To those who know me that would be enough to have you thinking, hmmm, she was driving? It was getting dark. Why would she be doing that? I had somewhere to …

The quality of sound Outside my room A girl screams jarring me from a deep afternoon nap Crow Caw sooths my soul then hummingbird Awakens my heart Beat. Think comfort for the screaming woman/child who demandingly reminds me of my …

Yesterday, the neighbors were quarreling again; someone called the police, then it was quiet. Well, it was quiet outside. Inside, I was shaking. Yesterday afternoon, other neighbors had their landscape person, using his blower, not only pollute the air with …

Farmers Market Sunday Open arms of sunshine Late this time of year What season is this That peaches lay with oranges? In the California warm Children dancing with the fiddle Or high above the onions On shoulders made for Small …

While walking home from my local coffee house this morning I saw one rose clinging to a vine whose leaves had already turned their autumn gold. Upon closer inspection, I saw a spider web had been woven above it. The …

High clouds early morning; Inhale coolness exhale sun; coloring autumn paler; evening cloud cover Lavender sky; now yellow mixed with less blue than yesterday; allowing summertime without heat; the perfect now. Tomorrow’s forecast chance of rain, I am besides myself …

In the alleyway adjacent to my bedroom the old man behind the steering wheel applies more pressure then necessary and his car shudders, dies then shakes alive I fall back to sleep The behemoth trash collection truck screeching brakes and …