Good Friends and Men in Dark Suits…
You know those times when a friend is talking to you over a glass of wine after work and all you can do is look at his wrist for the perfect vein. I shouldn’t go out hungry. I occasionally meet with a...
View ArticleMysterious Friendships
When friends, or others, discover we are Vampires the reactions vary from shock to horror to fascination. But, that said, they rarely find out we’re Vampires. I had to meet with my friend Adam,...
View ArticleLetters from Juliette – tales of young love and high school
I was going to write a post on love letters tonight but my kids, especially my daughter, started to talk about kids at school and relationships and making friends, so we’re still on track, just a...
View ArticleThings that go bump in the night…
I received a call this morning. A male voice was on the other end. “I’m sorry to call so late, your brother Aaron said to call.” It was 3 am. I was up. Of course I was, I’m a Vampire. I realized I was...
View ArticleGhosts of a Halloween Dawn
This morning, this early early Halloween morning, before the dawn when just a shadow of the trees like black lace can be seen I looked outside and saw a ghost. Damn it all. I hate ghosts. I barley...
View ArticleOld Stories, Secrets, and Teens of Long Ago, and Now
Old friends I hadn’t seen in a century stopped by Sunday night. We were young together, the same age as my teenage daughter and her friends, sixteen and seventeen years old. We laughed and told stories...
View ArticleLonely Roads (and Vampires and Parenting)
You know you’re a parent when you worry when your twenty year old son listens to Green Day’s Boulvard of Broken Dreams ten times in a row. Then you sit back and realize that earlier that night you were...
View ArticleEvie
Our friend Pierce was by this weekend. He pulled out a tintype of his mother and sisters. “Oh my goodness,” I said. “There is Evie when she was alive. How is she?” “Great, you should get in touch with...
View ArticleA conversations over coffee and musings about the lives of others (or don’t...
A conversations over coffee and musings about the lives of others. This morning I met for coffee with my brother’s friend James. James is one of those people I find extremely obnoxious, but we have a...
View ArticleStrange Strangers on a Full Moon Night
This afternoon I was thinking about Werewolves for some unknown reason. Maybe it was the coyotes behind my house. Maybe it was just my own big dog following me around. I couldn’t get Vlad to get off of...
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