I recently came upon a Hindu quote from the eleventh century and while I don’t remember the exact words, it generally talked about riding a boat on the river of life. Sometimes that river twists and turns, other times the current is fast and at times it can be calm. . As I started to think about it I began to wonder what type of boat we may need during our journey through the different phases of our lives. There are moments where we might need to be on an ice breaker when things are difficult, a…

Without overstating the obvious, one of my functions as a paramedic, and of all EMTs for that matter, is the need to step into someone’s house, apartment, condo, mobile home, or simply put, their abode. I’m amazed, well let me rephrase that because the years of being on the job has blunted the shock; what I’m trying to say is that most homes, and it doesn’t matter if they’re big or small, are a mess. . By mess I mean the clutter, the excessive trinkets, the papers, bottles, cans, bags, clothes, …

“Wondering Amongst Imagination’s Headstones” is a book of short stories I published back in November, 2019. I bring this up not because of the time of year, even though Halloween is my favorite holiday that’s not a holiday. But rather, something a coworker got me thinking about that I haven’t thought about in a long time; that being the two dates that are separated, by what is known as an en dash, on a gravestone. . Those dates are something we—that being you, me and every person on this planet—…