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 [...]

Standing Out, a photo by Jay Groce on Flickr. I think the theme here is pretty obvious. When we hang out with people that are just like us, the world sees us as all the same. When we are the only Ross’s goose among hundreds of Canadian geese, we just stand out. But, I sort [...]

Happy Birthday Balloon, a photo by Jay Groce on Flickr. My family has been burying the departed in the same cemetery since before I can remember.  The majority of my great-grandparents are there, along with three of my grandparents, a few aunts and uncles, and my dad.  Until very recently, it held every dead person [...]

Flash on Snowflakes, a photo by Jay Groce on Flickr. Coming Soon