Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
As we struggle to find a meeting place in this contentious world, we might land on our own mortality. Death does not discriminate. We’re all here for just a short time and, whether we’re yanked suddenly from an ordinary day or released gratefully from a long and painful struggle, we all have to leave. That [...]
Fall beckoned from the window with a whimsical Hello! so I set aside my busyness and promptly said “Let’s Go!” We ventured through the sunshine under canopies of gold and I marveled at the beauty in a view I had not scrolled. The trees stood tall and proudly with their crimson crowns aglow and they [...]
I think my face might have been a little sunburned from my delightfully warm walk along the river, because it really hurt when the wind whipped icy pellets at it the next morning as I scraped a thick frost off my windshield. "Come on, Wisconsin!" I yelled. "You're better than this!" From T-shirts on Tuesday [...]
I heard we gained an hour but I can’t find mine. Did I lose it in the shower? Or that rabbit hole online? Is it hiding in the corner of a place already rife with the remnants of the upsets in my wild and crazy life? I’ve checked behind the curtains, I’ve searched under the [...]
"I want to be rich!" the small boy said as he wished upon a star And the wise moon whispered back, “You already are.” “I wish to be rich!” the small boy said to the dandelion seed. And the wind it rode on answered, “You have everything you need.” “I want to be real rich,” [...]