The Good and the Bad

The Good

• The early morning sun on a bright and crisp spring day.


• Rosa’s smoky, gravelly laugh.


• The wail of a train horn after midnight as you lay in the bed listening to the crickets serenading outside.


• Cool, green grass beneath your bare feet and toes on a hot summer’s day after walking on blistering asphalt.


• The curvature and silky smooth skin of a woman’s back beneath your hand as you both lie naked in the bed.


• Maggie curled up beside me breathing softly as we go to sleep.


• Many comments on a blog post you thought sucked and which was sloppily and clumsily written.


• Southern, summer thunderstorms on a hot July afternoon.


• Late night car rides out into the countryside to hear the katydids sing.

The Bad

• The lack of universal healthcare.


• Housing not being a right.


• Our president being a puppet of an ignoramus.


• The morning after you drank 24 beers in a 12 hour period.


• Drunken sex.


• 5 soldiers died in Iraq yesterday. Their names will be long forgotten by most when Anna Nicole Smith, months dead, captures the limelight for the umpteenth time by the media.


• George’s ’81 Dodge Diplomat is dead. Long live the Diplomat!


• Being treated like you’re crazy.


• Your crazy meds making you impotent.


• Clingy, obsessive people.


• Fathers who treat you like you are retarded and not mentally ill.