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Sir Top Hat walked in a few years ago – an honest and kind critter with a passion for memorizing the storied history of Abe Lincoln. Sir Top Hat only surfaces above the earth during the month o...

https://anntogether.com/2024/10/16/sir-top-hat-and-abe-lincoln/

(Above, a recent sketch I did of my dear friend, DS Levy. My reference was a photo taken when the amazingly talented writer known as little Deb had a typewriter already growing in her heart)Man, ...

https://anntogether.com/2024/03/24/the-lollipop-vanishes/

to bore into the underbelly of our hearts. When trying to imagine the lightthis grey time of year can envelop us in its blue without shadow To taste the sun on our boneswe must always be willing ...

https://anntogether.com/2024/01/20/sometimes-the-cold-tries-very-hard/

For those unfamiliar with the poem The Two-headed Calf, it was written by Laura Gilpin (1950-2007). This force of nature came to me by way of my dear friend, DS Levy. Ms. Gilpin’s tragic, yet b...

https://anntogether.com/2023/11/13/a-two-headed-calf-once-broke-my-heart/

I don’t often show post-stroke images of my beautiful mom. I share the image (below) to share Millie’s joy. Through three years of relentless pain, Millie smiled and expressed joy. Knowing he...

https://anntogether.com/2023/10/30/i-miss-her-too-much-still/

My talented friend, DS Levy, has published her latest creation and it’s absolutely glorious! The stories in Incidentals are hard hitting with a touch of cloud here and there—but not always. D...

https://anntogether.com/2023/10/19/incidentals/

“With all the darkness that’s going on the world, you can look at the darkness, justdon’t stare. It will make you crazy. It will make you cross eyed. It will make youwhat it is. The solutio...

https://anntogether.com/2023/10/08/why-create-in-this-woeful-world-of-ours/

Long ago, I began what I affectionately titled my ‘kitchen-sinking file’an ever-growing repository to hold my murdered darlings —the words I couldn’t jettison into the infinite, all-power...

https://anntogether.com/2023/09/25/reconstruction-writing-from-my-kitchen-sink/

Dear Dad, Your eyes flashed the colors of a summer storm. Thunder rolled along the pink of your mouth. Your shadow filled our home whether you were with it or not. All this hurricane in one man. ...

https://anntogether.com/2023/07/12/the-steady-blue-firmament/

about my beautiful mom who’s smiling down today and every day❤️ HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to all you spectacular moms🌹! Millie shown here at 25 years of age with my sis Grace:)Geez man, I wis...

https://anntogether.com/2023/05/14/i-can-never-say-enough/