Category Archive: Perch // The Cause

I Should Be Zac Brown’s Publicist

Gonna put the world away for a minute Pretend I don’t live in it Sunshine gonna wash my blues away. I’d love to be able to see inside the minds of some songwriters,… Continue reading

A Thank You To My Readers, I Have a Favor to Ask Because I Like You Owl Lot

Nobody at his funeral asked the number of fake-book friends he had, because every one standing there sobbing together already knew the answer. How many real friends a person truly has in life… Continue reading

Who Are You When I’m Not Looking?

  Just as the country song asks, who are you when I’m not looking? Many people wear different faces when they think nobody is looking. Especially, when they think those they love aren’t.… Continue reading

I Am Perfect, Why Aren’t You?

What ever follows I AM will come looking for you, because we become who we believe ourselves to be. As parents, our children first learn from us what words to put after I… Continue reading

I’m Not Supposed to Call You.

I know I’m not. But there are so many times when I’ve wanted to. I’m not supposed to think about what you said, that day, and the many before, but I do. Those… Continue reading

What I learned from the man with a Dream

“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul… Continue reading

I didn’t want a girl.

Is her head really that big? That was my first thought when I saw her. After three sons, there came waltzing in, ok, maybe it was more like charging in; our sweet beautiful girl,… Continue reading

Detox Me. Detox You. We’re an addict too.

Recently, I came across this statement: “We are all suffering an overdose of other people’s lives.” Wow. Talk about a dose of reality! And sadly, I couldn’t agree more. We have an over… Continue reading

Because I have Two Husbands

I have two husbands because I said I will to them both. One became an I won’t anymore, or maybe, I can’t. It was hard, it was painful to go back on that… Continue reading

Coming Into Focus

Photo credit: by margolove With all this chatter lately about “breaking up” with our phones, devices, etc. and even with my own reflection upon my old Project Eye Contact of four years ago, along with the general… Continue reading