Twenty-six years old and it’s over. A hiker in Glacier National Park in Montana is dead after supposedly “following all protocols” to avoid a fatal bear attack, including emptying an entire can of bear-repellent spray before succumbing to the wild animal. As a human reflex, my heart always goes out to people when I hearContinue reading “Empty Thoughts”
Tag Archives: Mexico
Despair
Despair is the emotion you don’t wish on anyone, or at least you shouldn’t. To take away someone’s hope is “the unkindest cut of all.”Sometimes it is the only thing left to take away from a person. That and personal pride, something I have always had way too much of. Despair is the emotion coveredContinue reading “Despair”
Cantina Lady
The title of this week’s original song I penned in 1976, it comes with a story (I’m a writer, of course it does). The scene is a little dive bar on Canal Street in Nogales, Mexico. The bartender was asleep when I entered through the shimmering red, white and green beads. There were three cracked-leatherContinue reading “Cantina Lady”
