Tag: life
member name: X Tabber
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March 27, 2008 04:46 PM EDT --
No, not Christmas. By the time March rolls around, I'm half insane. Missouri just isn't good to ride much in the wintertime anyway. This season, we had snow and ice so often, . . .
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April 01, 2008 12:20 PM EDT --
In a story I wrote a while ago, Incident at the Gully Wash Cafe , the protagonist, Biker Dan, finds himself faced with an interesting challenge. Poet, the Gully Wash Cafe's proprietor . . .
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April 14, 2008 04:42 PM EDT --
Wednesday, November 24: I think my first hint that something had changed was the Breaking News labels on television. I wasn't really watching TV, but it was on and the characteristic . . .
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March 02, 2006 11:21 AM EST --
I was traveling this week. I had the good fortune to be invited to a conference in Ft. Lauderdale, and, anxious to leave St. Louis chill behind, I gladly accepted.
Sitting on the plane, waiting . . .
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May 24, 2006 05:25 PM EDT --
We inhabit two worlds, those of us online. We live and breathe in the real world and play and interact in the virtual.
Sometimes, certain people from your virtual world become very real to you, . . .
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February 07, 2007 04:53 PM EST --
I drift between these two states
At once alive and at once dead
Alive, . . .
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March 24, 2008 12:53 PM EDT --
My parents -- now retired -- decided recently that they would make the journey from Washington, DC to St. Louis to visit with me and their grandkids. They normally fly, but with the extra time on . . .
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October 16, 2008 12:16 PM EDT --
Blank white canvas with no expectations
Smooth cloth grain, thirsty to absorb pigment
Catching light and reflecting back all, indiscriminately
Dip a putty knife into a pool of pigment, thick . . .
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October 18, 2008 01:04 AM EDT --
Did you ever think in your wildest dreams
That you would put fun after work?
Play after responsibility?
That a drink with friends would be with one eye on . . .
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October 31, 2006 03:48 PM EST --
How cold it was, to get the news of your passing as I did
An email, albeit from a friend, didn't seem to do the news justice
I sat in stunned silence, my hand poised over the mouse
One unbelieving . . .
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April 21, 2008 10:32 PM EDT --
The wizened black man climbs carefully up the stairs of the bus. A young boy, no more than 10 years old follows him closely, holding his small suitcase and the old man's hat. Family . . .
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June 16, 2006 01:58 PM EDT --
Beneath the ash sky, trees look like dry bones
Reaching up to take hold of a sky like old stone
A stiff breeze was blowing, first out from the west
Then from the north, it continued its quest
Across . . .
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January 08, 2007 10:54 AM EST --
At first glance at the title, some will no doubt think I've gone and had some religious experience.
And, they would be not too far off!
I've gotten hooked on an online experience called Second . . .
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February 22, 2006 02:17 PM EST --
As you all may or may not know, the film "World's Fastest Indian" is in the theaters right now. I haven't seen it yet but I'm planning to this weekend. Can't wait! . . .
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March 02, 2006 09:41 AM EST --
I really wanted to avoid politics, but this issue burns.
A Kansas-based church has been frequently protesting at soldiers' funerals around the country to further their nasty . . .
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October 15, 2007 05:34 PM EDT --
Yesterday was the 12th Annual Bikers For Babies Ride in St. Louis. Over 7,000 motorcycles were in attendance, over $300,000 was raised, the sun shone and Fall held off one more day to give us perfect . . .
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March 02, 2006 09:59 AM EST --
If you have read Robert Pirsig's book, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," you may be interested to know that the pictures he took on that trip have been found, and appear at this . . .
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