School Picture I suppose it’s natural to assume that your children will grow up to reflect you as a parent. I don’t think the reverse is true. I don’t think kids grow up believing that everything they will be or become is determined by their parents. Once we flip that switch from being kids to [...]
Rainy Day 1, a photo by Jay Groce on Flickr. The last six months of my life was a series of starts and stops and blank pages and new ideas that that never made it past the guards with big hats of my brain. The beginning, I thought, was the hardest part. I know now [...]
Angel in Vase, a photo by Jay Groce on Flickr. I don’t want to be dead. Not today, tomorrow, or at any time in the near to distant future. But death does not negotiate, as a rule, and will come when it comes. Perhaps the time and place where death will come to me is [...]
End of Trail Bandit Trail, a photo by Jay Groce on Flickr. (The following was originally posted July 20, 2010, while in St. John.) I am sitting at JJ’s Texas Coast Café – on the island of St John in the US Virgin Islands. I am tucked in a corner of the bar just inside [...]
