Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
If it weren't for Jeff Askew bringing juggling balls to Thanksgiving, I might never have experienced the prolonged frustration and momentary triumph of tossing three balls in the air. We wondered, during those waning days of November, whether juggling might end up being one of the six new sports I intended to learn. "Is juggling [...]
Tuesday morning a violent storm rolled through town and took our giant, city-issued garbage can with it. I noticed it missing when I came home from work and briefly contemplated tracking it down. That turned out to be as undignified a process as you’d imagine, kind of Alice Kravtiz-y too. I wondered how I’d even [...]
The little boy greeted me as I waited for him outside the school door on a sunny afternoon last week. “You're old!” he said and skipped off through the crowded playground. It wasn’t the response I had been expecting to my chirpy, “Hey! How was your day?” and I initially took offense. Then I looked [...]
Some days, I like to spell olde the archaic way because it feels like it should be a four-letter word. On Monday, I bent to retrieve a small bag of lunchtime veggies from the lowest shelf in our workroom fridge, and I tweaked my back. Crud-ite! As a result, I walked like a tiny old [...]
Yesterday, I called my mom to make alternative plans for our evening swimming date. “What? We’ll be fine,” she said. I glanced back at my cell phone and confirmed that the temperature outside read 58 degrees. “It’s a little chilly, don’t you think?” I said. “Listen, I’m going for my morning swim. If it’s too [...]