I washed boats the Summer after I graduated college one day we were over in Harbor Sp… getting ready to do a job and as I was stepping on to this

drinking aromatic coffee and writi… in the tired morning whatever happened to those ingenious couch cartoons? we used to cruise our bikes

when I was around ten years old we went camping up at Barnes Park by Torch Lake we’d go to the beach and ride Sea-… on one particular ride

after a long day out on the bay in a cove of Lake Charlevoix we got everything packed to go and started heading for the shore my Dad had seen this thing at Sea…

when my Dad lived in Benzie the lake would freeze over across… so my Dad, I, and my brother would go out and walk on it we would walk the shoreline

when Dee was still alive and her cancer was in remission we went out for dinner one night a… downtown Cadillac during the winte… after we pulled up to the restaura…

when I worked hauling drywall I used to imagine mountains it was the answer to my current si… it was a hope 8 months later I was in Colorado

in high school I hurt my knee at a football practice I slammed it off the ground I think it was a Bursa sac it would flare up when I put press…

this one time Courtney and I chugged 20 oz bott… we were in the back seat of my Dad… coming back from somewhere we both had to pee almost immediat…

my Mom once planted a broken tree… into the ground and she was so excited when it sta… to grow leaves it was in our backyard

right around a month ago I was in Northern Michigan and th… at a golf outing the golf was fine but just hanging… the guys is what it’s all about

before there was any real pressure turning us into diamonds we stood in the driveway in the falling snow the street lamps were orange and

we used to use Ms. VanDam’s yard constantly either playing on it or cutting through to see friends she lived directly behind our old…

yesterday I was “open ears and open eyes” yesterday there were voices flowering in my… I hope