It’s a good time of year to put your feet up and soak in the view… Even if you close your eyes and invent the vista.
Little Fish, Big Dreams?
Anyone for a fish story?
Maybe We Have More Choices Than We Think
Too many choices, or too few? You decide.
Deserving
Turning an overused word inside out.
Buck Up
My “get up and go” just got up and went.
How to Look at Things Differently: The Future is on the Periphery
Changing our perspective by looking to what is seemingly peripheral.
Your Best of Times, Your Worst of Times
Facing marital challenges and divorce, not always at our best.
Thanking My Lucky You-Know-Whats
Riding around searching for a connection. Nope. Not of the “let’s hook up” variety, thanks very much. Of the Internet variety. But no. You’ve never done that before, right? Driven or strolled slowly down your street, hoping to hop on someone’s working line – if there is one? Big storms mean big interruptions. And after […]
Flop House
I tripped over shoes in the living room. It was dark, and the shoes didn’t belong to either of my sons. This is not new. The body on the couch was longer and broader than usual, mumbling good morning as I covered him with a fallen comforter and went to my younger son’s room and […]
Stilled By the State of My World
She rarely speaks, usually nodding her head and smiling. This morning she talked to me, loading my weekly groceries into the trunk. Her English is poor, but comprehensible. She looked troubled. My Neighbor, Myself She has been working as a bagger at my local supermarket for 10 years. She is a single mother, mid-thirties. Her […]