Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
It may be that I’ve been hibernating too long myself, but yesterday, rather than celebrating Groundhog Day with my usual its-almost-spring-even-though-it-really-isn’t optimistic zest, I felt a little sorry for all those groundhogs. I imagined myself being yanked from a sound slumber and held aloft, hair all matted, eyes blurry and sticky with sleep, frantically trying [...]
I bought my son Charlie and daughter in-law Tara some Christmas jammies , reasoning that if they could not join us in person for the holidays, at least they could join us in festive flannel. Then, I cheerfully sent them off, 25 days before Christmas. Feeling no pressure at all, thanks to my uncharacteristic postal [...]
Dear little chromebook, so shiny and lean You’re also a victim of COVID-19. You had it much simpler way back in the day When you ruled the classroom and kept kids at bay. Now you’ve been scattered to bedrooms and floors Stuffed into closets and shoved under doors. They slam you in anger and throw [...]
My phone has had enough of 2020. I mean, I have too but do you see me lashing out in passive/aggressive ways meant to embarrass the only person in the world willing to gently disinfect my liquid crystal display? No! That phone though. Yikes. One day, as I took a vigorous walk, I received several [...]
I've been going mano-a-ocho-manos all summer with a yellow garden spider who claimed one of my flower boxes as his own. Every afternoon, I clear that sticky goo, and all the things it traps, off my poor pink impatiens, and every evening that tenacious tentacled tyrant rolls his eight beady eyes at me and shoot [...]