Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
With one week to spare, I completed my challenge to learn six new sports in celebration of my 60th birthday. My final sport was boxing. Fittingly, I wrapped up my challenge exactly as I had begun it -- with a whole lot of sweat, and with my good and game-for-anything friend Jill. I was too [...]
If you want to enjoy winter, you just have to be a mitten-losing, snowball-making, snowflake-tasting, sled ride-whooping kid. It's easy! You can start with a cheap plastic saucer and just enough snow. Then find a big hill somewhere, settle your creaky old bones in and let 'er rip. I'll tell you what happens as you [...]
Back when she went by Peggy Jo, rolled her dungarees and flipped her hair, my mother used to jitterbug across the smooth, waxed floor of her parent’s basement. Self taught in bobby socks, she and her friend Beanie spent hours practicing dance steps with whatever partners they could scare up from the neighborhood gang. Their [...]