Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
City band concerts offer lucky attendees the rare opportunity to sit back, relax and experience life exactly as it sounded 10, 20, 30 even 100 years ago, for exactly the same cost. Free. Close your eyes, let your spirits start to soar and you'll live as you've never lived before. That was our experience, anyway, [...]
This weekend, we ate smiley faced pancakes with fresh blueberries, raspberries and chocolate chips. We played pickup baseball, Hedbanz and a loose-ruled version of Family Feud. We took long, slow walks down old country roads. We watched a mother robin feed her baby birds. We sat around a crackling camp fire and listened to frogs [...]
Summer sounds like baseball. The happy murmur of settling fans, the crack of the bat, the thunk of the ball in a thick leather mitt, the rhythmic clap of the universal cheers. "Peanuts! Popcorn! Cotton Candy!" We spent Monday night at the Timber Rattlers Stadium, along with our 94-year old friend Nai Chang and his [...]
One of us is marching toward fall with her chin in the air, left arm tucked in a cozy wool sweater, right hand holding a crunchy apple. The other is taking a more languid pace, bare toes dragging in wet sand, marshmallow mustache on surly lip, face turned toward the setting summer sun. Here is [...]
Slowly, with white wicker chairs and hardy cushions; potted plants and creaky porch swings; wooden railings and seasonal flags, American front porches are mounting a comeback, at least in our neck of the woods. From our own front porch we can clink sweating glasses to toast brand new babies, baseball trophies and proud rescue pups. [...]