Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Our plane rolled to a stop about 100 yards into our 2000-mile journey a few weeks ago. “We’re a little overweight,” our pilot announced, and we all sucked in our guts. “So we’re going to need to burn some fuel. We’ll be here about another 15 minutes.” “We probably shouldn’t have stopped for those Kwik [...]
I introduced a young man to the ocean this weekend and they became true and perfect friends. Oceans are what people can be when they remember their source of light — steady like the tide, uplifting like the waves and unbiased generators of growth. Earth hits its apex of beauty each evening when the sunset [...]
I’d seen friendlier welcome signs than the one that greeted us as we crossed the Wisconsin border into Iowa Saturday afternoon. “Travel not advised,” the flashing sign read. Ours was not a recreational trip, and we wanted to honor a commitment we’d made to the people on the other side of it. Still, we warned [...]
I am always delighted by the opportunity to travel, to explore new places, taste new food, click my phone into airplane mode and be absolutely unreachable until I land. On my most recent trip, I reignited my fascination with vending machines. More than a dozen years ago, the Sprinkles Cupcake vending machine tickled my taste [...]
According to the journals she left behind, with strict instructions not to publish until “no living person would be hurt” by her comments, Lucy Maude Montgomery always knew she’d be famous one day. “I believe in myself,” she wrote. “And I struggled on alone, in secrecy and silence. I never told my ambitions and efforts [...]