Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I'm no luddite, but I do enjoy some simple pleasures -- long walks, good books, sidewalk chalk, porch swings, and climbing branches that hang thick and low. Earlier this week, we bought a rubber ball, an impulse purchase we scooped up along with a tomato and some sliced cheese. We spent $4.95 for the ball [...]
Yesterday, still basking in the warm glow of my "Spring in Wisconsin" post, I took my favorite stroll down to the river. Wind whipped my hair into Medusa-like clumps, my stupidly un-gloved fingers froze into an intimidating claw and I worried my watering eyes might actually freeze shut. Spring in Wisconsin, indeed. Even miserable walks [...]
I found a basket of memories yesterday, and I sat on the closet floor and enjoyed them for a while. Time stood still, and then pleasantly rolled backwards as I sifted through sports buttons from all those frantic years of active parenting. All four of my kids played on teams with varying degrees of talent [...]
She drove my car way more often than I did this summer, and borrowed my clothes as a matter of course. "Hey, is that my...?" I'd asked. "Yes, it is!" she'd answer cheerfully as she headed out the door. She left coffee grounds in her press on the kitchen counter and piled shoes by the [...]
My daughter would like her name back and I've been trying all summer to give it to her. I chose it carefully in 1998 -- Mary Margaret, after her two grandmothers, nicknamed Molly because her grandmothers happened to have two of the holiest names in the Bible and we wanted our daughter to have some [...]