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  • Barfly: Chapter Twenty-Three

      “Are you sure you want to do this?” Walsh asked. I shook my head.  “Of course I’m not,” I answered, “but I have to.” He nodded and pushed the bundled stack of papers to me.  “What are you going to say…

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  • Barfly: Chapter Twenty-Two

      I did write Stellan that letter like the cab driver suggested.  I folded it up, put it in an envelope, and placed it on my kitchen counter. It’s now two weeks later and it is still sitting on my kitchen counter.…

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  • 2012

    This is the view I ended 2011 with and this is the view I started 2012 with. I would not have changed a thing in 2011. If I did, I would not have ended up in Australia meeting who I did and…

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  • Barfly: Chapter Twenty-One

      After seventy-two plus hours of not hearing from Stellan, I hauled my ass to a bar with Mika so I could sit and wallow in the comfort of a martini glass. “Have you been drinking all this time?” Mika asked. I…

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  • Barfly: Chapter Twenty

      “You’ve reached Stellan.  Leave a message and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.” Sighing, I hung up the phone and dropped it onto the counter of my bathroom.  I had managed to loose my best friend and…

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  • Barfly: Chapter Nineteen

      I sat up and stared at my phone into the wee hours of the morning.  I had spent ninety percent of that time shedding tears in sadness and in anger.  I was sad because Stellan’s phone was still going straight to…

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  • Barfly: Chapter Eighteen

      I stood in Stellan’s kitchen quietly stirring a sauce he had tasked me with while he was pounding away at a carcass of pour cow.  “You know that piece of meat is already dead don’t you?” “I’m just following the recipe…

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  • Barfly: Chapter Seventeen

      “Well hell,” Walsh said. “Well hell?” I asked into the receiver.  “That doesn’t sound very exciting and it doesn’t sound like you’re happy for me.” “I’m completely happy for you baby sister.  I just can’t believe you finally got a boyfriend. …

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