Confessional Highway
Blog URL http://confessionalhighway.blogspot.com/
Located Venice, California USA
Tags personal essay, dating, politics, parenting, relationships, fiction, writing
from essays on life's encounters to occasional forays into fictional moments. hop around. you never know what you'll find...
Latest Blog Posts
- With My Dad on Jun 26, 2009
When I see the news blurb that Hugh Hefner is selling one of his mansions, I feel a rush of panic. I’m not concerned about the health of Playboy, an empire about which I have mixed feelings. My concern is personal. As an LA native, through the year...
- Puff on May 29, 2009 in smoking cancer
I’ve never been a smoker, but I’ve never been a vicious anti-smoker either. Well, except for that time my mom lit up in a doctor’s office waiting room when I was a precocious child. Despite my requests, she wouldn’t put the thing out, not eve...
- Black Thumb on May 23, 2009 in spring plants gardening
I don’t know how it happened, but walking towards my bedroom door, I tip my head to the right, and there it is, my plant in bloom. For many, this is an annual occurrence, the resurgence of blossoms that definitively demonstrate life’s cycles.The...
- Venice, CA... my hood on May 4, 2009
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- :: taken too soon :: on Apr 21, 2009
It’s the image that always comes to me when I think of my relationship with my brother, the royal blue and white striped peashooter he gave me for my fourth birthday. It must have been his idea at age eleven. I don’t think my parents would have s...
- In/Out on Apr 14, 2009
You come because you fear missing. The moment, the announcement, the invite, the laugh. The need to be in, be a part, belong. Like willingly slipping into handcuffs, you log on, log in, but with the sound of the bird caw you raise you eyes to the win...
- Home and Away on Apr 13, 2009
It could be the jetlag, the confusing sleep pattern that allows me to drift off at a reasonable 10:30 p.m. only to awaken four hours later prepared to start a day that still sleeps. Or it could be the disorientation of returning to a life that demand...
