Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Where I live, summer wafts in on merry waves of music. It rises like yellow daffodils from parks, bandshells and tavern courtyards. Summer is a song here in Appleton, and we privileged mortals just have to find a seat somewhere and listen. Last night, as I sat in a lawn chair and listened to the [...]
Like Meg Ryan's character in You've Got Mail, I am a big fan of daisies. The fragile appearance of their petals belie the determined stretch of their roots. They stand tall against inevitable storms with an admirable reliability. Harbingers of joy, they spring up early, stay late and tend happily to the task at hand. [...]
Like the child who planted it, our pepper plant has moments of glorious triumph. It rises from unconventional roots, stretched surprisingly deep against a cement floor. Peppers are meant to be seasonal fruit, but this one weathers all kinds of storms with a stubbornness that both impresses and confounds. Last year, we thought it had [...]
My granddaughter won’t remember her first trip to the ocean, but I will. I’ll remember the adorable duck sweatshirt she wore and the way her mother held her snug against her chest. I’ll laugh when I think of her cute little face and that scrunched up expression that said, “What in the world are you [...]
I’m enjoying an extended, coast-to-coast run of LaLa-palooza that opens in New Jersey with two darling divas, and closes with the LA debut of another rising star. I’m in my grandma era. That means I pay closer attention to this crazy old world because I want to preserve its best assets for them. It also [...]