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Tomorrow will be two weeks without my dad.  He died in his bed, 10 feet and floorboards between us when it happened.  I never learned anything about being a man. I never asked him, and he never showed me. He told me the best movie ever made was The Quiet Man. I miss him. There's a hole and a depth I never wanted.  I cried in the basement pacing and pausing in piles of his tools. I woke up at 3 am and began to shovel our driveway.  I watched snowbanks I made color themselves blues and reds when the sun came.  Black capped chickadees started singing "swee-tee". He was covered in foundation at the viewing, I touched his cold head and left wi

I don't really swing by here anymore.  I'm a real quitter! There are a couple of you I would call friend, I like you folks.  I don't make strong bonds via internet though.  who does really?

Whenever I watch baseball games I watch innings 1-3, fall asleep, and then wake up around the 7th or 8th inning, and if I don't see the final score within 10 minutes of waking up I usually just end up going to bed. I usually only watch the Bruins games hoping to see some good fashioned fist fight fun- I don't understand the rules of hockey at all and I can never follow who has the puck (it's a fuzzy black dot flying around at 100 mph on my tv).