Category Archives: character sketch

My Daughters Thirteenth Birthday

Posted on March 6, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Dear Camberlyn (Birthday girl) So what do you think of this very memorable past year little thing…or perhaps now I’m not able to call you that as you round 13 years. It’s been a wonderful year in ways you can … Continue reading →

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Two Arrivers Meet

Posted on January 12, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

“Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do. There are moments when the affections rule and absorb the man, and make his happiness dependent on a person or persons. But in … Continue reading →

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Turning out the beasts

Posted on April 23, 2013 by skipavm@gmail.com

I remember turning my horses out to pasture…and they’d light out to the furthest corners as fast as milkweed fairies on the wind.    These beasts of burden are stubborn like my heart is resolved at times.  But so beautiful to … Continue reading →

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Be, Choose, Change

Posted on October 9, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

There is the world we desire and the world we are in, and then there’s the world we choose…  only the third matters… Some people make a living outta dyin’ – i’m just dyin’ to start livin’ And sometimes being … Continue reading →

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The Creative Adult is the Child Who Survived (Yep – Sun Gazing)

Posted on September 3, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Think about it; the most creative moments of your adult life were the moments you allowed the child in you to play. rsb. Sad how growing older oft becomes the smothering of the innocent innovator – we are compelled to … Continue reading →

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Shifting

Posted on August 31, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Sitting heavily outside  at the corner of Library and Market,  the skin of my ass slightly stuck  to the Italian wool fabric of my pants. (shifting)  – still stuck…underwear,  then what’s the purpose?   I’m reminded that the world I imagine  is far bigger … Continue reading →

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…LEX PARISMONIAE: MIDLIFE IN SOLILOQUY

Posted on March 15, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

My dear and clear friends, I find it ironic that the easiest can be so difficult. I heard a sojourner at the rail sigh and say into his glass of ale, “…this proclivity for circumlocution and periphrasis has been a … Continue reading →

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A Gold Dipped Metaphor

Posted on February 16, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Were it not for a volcano exploding in Asia and shifting the earth for moment, I’d not have caught my balance on a cliffs edge in North America. So certain was I that plate tectonics was my guardian angel; and … Continue reading →

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A Night in the Window

Posted on February 5, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

“Say that again,”  he said. Interrupting her sip of beer, she replied,   “mm – say what?”              “- Say whatever it was you said, because it made a perfect arc between our lips.”  She just smiled, looking over the top … Continue reading →

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I remember a time when I didn’t have to remember a time…

Posted on December 15, 2011 by skipavm@gmail.com

I remember a time when I didn’t have to remember a time When butter only came in sticks. And the trash men came every morning When a Chevy was just a Chevy… And my dad parked it for free and … Continue reading →

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