Coleslaw — On the Side

Coleslaw  “Why did you pick me to mix with carrot shreds?” asks the hand cut cabbage. “The sun warmed me and my roots had water before you came.” The red and black radishes cry the same, “Why were we uprooted, before we bloomed? Our future seeds yearn to spread and grow.” The cook ignores the […]

A Holiday Celebration — An Excerpt from “Balanced on the Edge of the Crowd

There are many old friends in this segment. A few have passed from this earth and others have taken another path. I miss them all. We had good times. However, today, I continue to enjoy this place with Blake. A few days later, on Thanksgiving morning, bright sunshine bounced off our bedroom mirror and hit […]

Cuckoo On A Wire 2014

Cuckoo Bird on a Wire Precariously clings to a thread of hope and longing waiting for something to happen that changes the way things are or will be Soon.  

Green Cuba/How Cuba Survived Peak Oil — A Review

With all the Beyond Cuckoo hoopla over the last week about President Obama’s push to open relations with Cuba, I thought it was time to re-post my review of this important documentary film I did for Greener Living Today http://www.greenerlivingtoday.com/green-cuba-how-cuba-survived-peak-oil-review   As usual we are quick to judge an entire nation and it’s people by it’s […]

Bird Blessed — An excerpt from “Balanced on the Edge of the Crowd”

Bird Blessed Today is Blake’s sixty-third birthday. Forty years ago we arrived in Sonoma County from Spokane Washington in our sixty-six Chevy camping van, pulling a U-Haul trailer with a German shepherd riding shotgun. We landed on a property belonging to the Trentadue Family. For some Déjà vu (also the name of our German shepherd […]