Sheep On The March!
It’s an Idaho thing, and I’m so there for it If wishes had wings, sheep would fly. — Robert Jordan It’s spring, and the sheep are on the move Not like it’s all their idea, of course. Sheep and ideas are generally acknowledged…
Jan M Flynn
Novels, short stories, essays, high-intensity daydreams. Compulsive reader.
Your Body’s an Iceberg
And most of it’s not even you Image by Naomi Booth from Pixabay This is why science makes people nervous It keeps coming up with uncomfortable discoveries; things that jolt us out of our assumptions about ourselves and demand that we question the evidence…
Jonestown Still Haunts Me
My former classmate drank the Kool-Aid — last Here’s my memory of Thanksgiving weekend, 1978 My fiancée and I were staying at my widowed mother’s house in Belmont, California where I’d spent my first 20 years. The family gathering proceeded with…
I’m Not Too Old to Be An Idiot
Darn it. Back when I was young and stupid, I did something terrible I didn’t mean to. But I hurt someone deeply, someone who means the world to me. I’m not going to describe the incident, because that would be…
My All-Season Body
Outliving bikini season angst This weekend, I was reminded to be grateful for a gift from the aging process. Like many of its gifts, it takes an adjustment in my perspective to appreciate, but once I do, boy howdy. Get…