Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
My friend Susie moves about our neighborhood like a woodland sprite, leaving handmade ornaments in her wake. They appear like magic every December, right around the time we put up our Christmas tree. I never see her coming or going, the ornaments just appear in a puff of fairy dust. This year's ornament arrived and [...]
In an effort to simplify Christmas this year, I suggested we all give each other scrapbook pages, which turned out to be as far from simple as you might imagine. But, man oh man, did I love it. We are a rather un-crafty family of procrastinators in general and my suggested project, initially received with [...]
We live in an enviable neighborhood, not for it's zip code, or architecture or even the park for which its named. The real asset of our neighborhood is its people and the way they treat each other. Yesterday, we found a small package hanging from our door knob. This is not unusual in our neck [...]