Lee DeAmali

There is a peace is stepping away When the business you created stops bringing joy, when it becomes a joyless chore to generate revenue After a certain point, that business, for all its accomplishments, is best seen in a rearview mirror. The view from its summited peak, the exhilaration of having made it, of having planted…

Despite all the logical reasons for deciding to switch gears at 60, despite the relief felt in deciding to do so, I’m still doing the same old thing, fearful if of losing a major part of my identity not to mention source of income. Caught up in daily routine’s lock step, my eyes dart outward…

J and I staying at a hotel structure familiar from other dreams, sprawled out and maze like. This time we were staying in a wing opening to a bucolic setting of quiet sparsely populated rolling hills. The room was ideal, but it was temporary, and so set back that coffee carried back from the lobby…

A little 50 word totally fictional piece is up on 50-Word Stories, inspired by a postcard received a few years ago, kept wedged between a mirror and its frame. The actual image is of Boyton Canyon in Sedona, AZ USA, but I always imagine a lake tucked away in there, too. I don’t know the…

For the Avian 29 word prompt/challenge from Sammi Cox: Angie and I take our regular seats, nursing drinks at the Lonely Hearts Saloon, waiting for the air conditioner breeze to lift our clipped avian wings, carry us away. ***

As another holiday season approaches, so returns the knotted stomach over get togethers with those who have hurt us in the past. If Christ could forgive, so should we, but it can be hard for mere mortals. It’s not like these were isolated slights. We are talking repeated attempts to shame and change. The concept…