Tag Archives: reunions

High School Reunion Musical

Posted on September 14, 2009 by John

Someone told me once we never grow beyond the point we turn the age eighteen: what insecurities we carried then still manifest themselves throughout our lives. That makes those speeches every June (you know the ones that say life’s just … Continue reading →

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Reunion

Posted on January 23, 2007 by John

What did you expect here in the space above my name? The golden boy you never thought I was? Redemption for some lost and lonely cause? Guess you’re right to wonder about who and what’s to blame From nothing, a … Continue reading →

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The Wall

Posted on May 28, 2004 by John

There is something in a family that doesn’t like a wall inside the boundary it constructs, its face against the world, that thin veneer of solidarity presented to conceal or pander to the social mores ranking its esteem. Behind the … Continue reading →

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Declining an RSVP

Posted on August 20, 2003 by John

We have killed two decades with our lives; Clocks and pocket-watches, notebooks and meetings have spoken to us in the language of Ur, a Babylonian-Chaldean moonmist frenzy of words and tired metaphors. In twenty years you’d think I might’ve found … Continue reading →

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Looking for patterns in things

Posted on January 8, 2003 by John

If I can find a repeating pattern, a repetitious rhythm that pulses underneath the warp and woof of my life, it is that each time I reconnect with my biological family, it becomes necessary to wipe clean the creative slate … Continue reading →

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