Summer Time Where I live, summers are not measured by the calendar so much as by holidays. Summer begins with Memorial Day and ends with Labor Day. The mid-point is marked by the Fourth of July. The calendar does not agree of course. Summer, according to “calendarians” (is that a word?) begins on or about June 21 and… Read More »
I see an old man walking slowly down the sidewalk with a small dog on a leash. The old man is hunched and barely able to walk. The small brown and white dog isn’t barking. He’s trying to walk as slowly as the old man holding the leash. They look like good friends. The old man is so… Read More »
They say that ketchup is the poor man’s sauce, whoever they are. They say a lot of things. They say what’s good for the goose is good for the gander too, but how many of you walk around calling male geese ganders? Not many, but THEY do. But I don’t want to talk about geese, ganders or what… Read More »
Leave The Candle Burning He left the candle burning, just as she had asked him to do. Though it had been seven years since she went away, every evening at nightfall he would light a candle. Every night while he tried to sleep through his pain and his loneliness, the candle flickered silently casting dancing shadows upon the… Read More »
Looking for “Leave the Candle Burning”? Click here Superficially Substantial There are times in your life when you have to step back and look at your life in a critical way. When you look at where you’ve been, where you are and where you are going, you might see things you don’t want to see. When I was… Read More »
Stardust You wake up and you look out your bedroom window and you see it’s a another beautiful summer day. You hear the birds singing, you see the flowers opening in the sun, and you smell the fresh, clean summer wind. You see a deer peacefully eating a plant in a field, you see a bee hopping from… Read More »