Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Some cultures choose November to celebrate the eternal and transitory nature of the human soul. With optimistic hospitality, they build small altars offering traditional gifts and familiar décor, believing the soul returns annually for a brief period to visit the humans it left behind. I like to think that's true. Who wouldn't want to spend a cool autumn evening [...]
On this Labor Day, we're honoring human dignity. We're saluting the soldiers, policemen, firefighters, paramedics, and anyone who runs toward the flames while everyone else scrambles to flee. We're tipping our hats to the laborers, on whose sweaty backs we built this great country. We're welcoming the immigrants, because who would America be without them? [...]
One of us is marching toward fall with her chin in the air, left arm tucked in a cozy wool sweater, right hand holding a crunchy apple. The other is taking a more languid pace, bare toes dragging in wet sand, marshmallow mustache on surly lip, face turned toward the setting summer sun. Here is [...]
I tripped over a cello yesterday, landed hard on the fingerboard and picked up steam as I skidded past an ineffective rock stop. Eventually, I came to rest under our stately piano which, I imagine, sighed heavily and shook its dignified keys in dismay. We've had our piano for 20 years, and it's seen more [...]
Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by- They are good, they are bad, they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish - so am I. Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in [...]