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 [...]

Bubble Kid, a photo by Jay Groce on Flickr. The calendar pinned to the wall above my desk has displayed March of 2009 for over two years. It is protected from the elements, and not connected to anything that might try to update it automatically, so I imagine the calendar will display March of 2009 [...]