Nine years ago today, I think, is when my fervent wish came true: my mundane life was transformed into a thing of wonder. Wonder… Plus confusion, pain, fear, grief, longing and, right now: abject terror. via Pocket

We used to eat whole herds of ballan, letting them first graze a while to get used to the slightly thinner atmosphere, adjust to the new gravity. via Pocket

I woke up early to make breakfast for my daughter and my wife. It was going to be a grinding day at work. Even though everybody denied it, it sure felt like there were quotas to fill up the cells. The immigrants had been in those cells before the cu…

Coming back from work, I pass near the Post Office, so I thought I would stop in to see if the expected package had arrived. And it had: there in our box was the slim three inch by four inch by two inch box, the code autoloader with its new programm…

Early summer afternoon. The lunchtime crowd at Sal's was thinning out. Tony the bartender called it the lushtime crowd. Anyone who stopped by Sal's, a dark, two-bit joint, that early wasn't there for lunch. Tony had taught over at Irving High. via P…