Between the By-Road and the Main Road

Today's slice of life grew out of a painting I did in a journal. I stared at it for a while and the story emerged. A year after Rob...

Possibilities (M.A. Reilly, 2014) Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a practice that becomes spiritual muscle memo...

Bluebird (M.A. Reilly, 2012) “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” ~ Charlotte B...

Winter (M. A. Reilly, 2012) I. On my way to see Rob the unusual happens. I am walking down a hospital corridor, heading towards the...

This is my 1000th post. A milestone. And I wanted it to say something about hope--something about what connects us, reveals our human...

Twilight, In Beween (M.A. Reilly, 2014) "Discourse, lives as it were, on the boundary between its own control and  another alien...

Early in the week Gabriela Olmos's children's book, I Dreamt arrived at my home. Originally published in Mexico it is now av...

Winter Solstice (December 21, 2010, M.A. Reilly)            So the shortest day came, and the year died,               And everywher...

Are You Better Off? (9.5.2012, M.A. Reilly) Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said:   … I think that the real i...