Tag: family
member name: Ricky Fico
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December 02, 2006 03:04 AM EST --
"Leaves are fallin' all around, it's time I was on my way." I'm singing along to this song, Ramble On by Led Zeppelin- from the album that Trish borrowed from her friend, . . .
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November 28, 2006 09:12 AM EST --
The Lake
(Dedicated to Yvonne Petit)
I awoke to the wake of dawn
Amidst the Lake
heron duck, geese
and trails of fawn
My first cup, a quick release
-a morning yawn
Before the tree – a mother . . .
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December 14, 2006 03:45 AM EST --
Mom is tossing about the salad, blending together a few leaves of lettuce and a couple of slices of leftover tomato. Thrown in for color a few shavings of carrot. Since there isn’t enough to . . .
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November 17, 2006 11:47 PM EST --
As I had once said, "it's not what you don't have but what you do have." What I didn't have as a kid growing up mattered not so much as what I did have. Yes, it's true that I . . .
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December 11, 2006 07:37 PM EST --
Emmett,
Again I am profoundly grateful for your contributions and admiral devotion to your family. You are truly a man of integrity. I am forever indebted to you for all your help here on . . .
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November 19, 2006 05:41 PM EST --
I'm in the bedroom looking for my favorite shirt, the one with all of the buttons. As I'm scavenging through the small closet Chet opens the door a pinch and peeks in.
"Your friend's . . .
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November 19, 2006 06:25 PM EST --
A recent scientific study conducted at Stanford & Son University confirmed the theory that sexual pleasure is enhanced 60% when it is performed within one hour of blogging. Two hours hence and the . . .
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November 18, 2006 09:14 AM EST --
Larry: Before we get started, are you comfortable in front of the camera?
Ricky J. Fico: I think so. Really haven't been in front of too many cameras before. Well, except for the security ones at . . .
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November 19, 2006 07:39 PM EST --
As a young boy with youthful yearnings and miniscule earnings derived from my lop-sided paper route, I decided it was time I do something really nice for Momma and maybe, just maybe, she'd forget her . . .
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February 11, 2007 04:08 AM EST --
A community is comprised of many components of diversity that form together a common bond of cohesion. Deviation from this cohesion, by an act of immorality or lawlessness is an act of conspiracy against . . .
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November 16, 2006 11:24 AM EST --
This morning, unlike most mornings, I'm at a loss for words. I'm staring at the blank screen, hypnotized by the blinking cursor. It is wearying heavy upon my eyelids. I'm falling . . . falling . . .
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November 20, 2006 12:43 PM EST --
"Remembering when I was young, I fought for the sun. . . Shine, you crazy diamond. . . .
Yes, that song means much to me as does Silent Lucidity and countless others but in this small space I cannot . . .
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December 01, 2006 05:56 PM EST --
If memory serves me right, it was sometime after the war when our front porch became refuge for a few of society's outcasts—members of the down-trodden and misguided; it was a place where we'd . . .
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December 03, 2006 06:58 AM EST --
It's the second day after Christmas now and the crowd had shuffled in. Tony, he's not in the best of spirits, though the last two nights his till took in more money than the previous two weeks . . .
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December 04, 2006 07:43 PM EST --
Typhoon-like winds swirling and whirling all around, the roars of thunder pounding inside my twelve year-old head. The piercing spears of blue - jagged and frightening - striking near the periphery . . .
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December 08, 2006 11:38 AM EST --
*If you don't want to read my story, that is fine but please read the footnote:
The First Christmas After The Fall
It's Christmas Eve, and it's unlike those of years . . .
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August 02, 2007 08:37 AM EDT --
As a young boy with youthful yearnings and miniscule earnings derived from my lop-sided paper route, I decided it was time I do something really nice for Momma and maybe, just maybe, she'd forget her . . .
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December 13, 2006 05:50 PM EST --
Following Susan P's lead I, too, want to take this time and dedicate this page to my beloved Aunt Dorothy who will not be with us physically this Christmas. Her spirit, though, will forever remain . . .
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December 14, 2006 03:28 AM EST --
Following Susan P's lead I, too, want to take this time and dedicate this page to my beloved Aunt Dorothy who will not be with us physically this Christmas. Her spirit, though, will forever remain . . .
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November 23, 2006 09:09 AM EST --
On this Thanksgiving Day, I look out the window. Beyond the patio, oh, about 25 yards begins the lake. Before it, spread 25 feet apart, two small trees. At the base of these trees - small pumpkins, flowers . . .
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