Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Saturday night my daughter Molly and I found ourselves inexplicably alone at a gorgeous camp fire . (The gentlemen in our party had wandered off into the woods and landed at a neighbor's pond where they built socially distant sand castles and tried to catch fish with their bare hands.) So, we were quite blissful [...]
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hairFlow it, show itLong as God can grow itMy hair! It's been exactly 164 days since my last hair appointment and I can't get these lyrics out of my head. Gimme a head with hairLong beautiful hairShining, gleaming,Streaming, flaxen, waxen I consider myself lucky, though. Thanks to extreme myopia, [...]
Because my sister Kathy (a middle child) retired mid-week, mid-semester, mid-pandemic, she might have slipped away unnoticed from the job she loved. But, her team of coworkers, friends and family weren't about to let that happen. On Wednesday, we all gathered for a surprise retirement parade past her house on a perfect May afternoon, made [...]
We all do just about anything Molly asks us to do because she bakes us tasty things. So, when she asked us to help her recreate Edward Hopper's Nighthawks last night, we agreed. (It helped that she had just plied us with a really tasty Cinco de Mayo meal of pork carnitas.) Hopper's Nighthawks eloquently [...]
My niece Lizzy will write you a poem if you send her a line. My friend Diane tucks postage stamps, homemade candy and home grown flowers in May Day baskets she distributes around the neighborhood. Another friend is a gifted fitness instructor and has organized a small driveway boot camp. By midweek, Amanda will have [...]