Category Archives: Essays

Killing Time

You don’t have time to read this and I don’t have time to write this. I don’t have time to do anything I want to do because I am too busy doing things I have to do – or too busy doing the things I want to do that I don’t have time to do the things I… Read More »

Imagine You Are

Imagine you are a snowflake and you are born in a high cloud on a bleak and bitter winter day. And for the longest time, you’re borne on and travel the lofty and majestic winds that sweep the crescents of the sky, always surrounded by other snowflakes, all alike and all different and all traveling together, to the… Read More »

Little Miracles

It has been a nasty, cold, windy winter. And after weeks of punishing winter weather, it is with great pleasure I report to you that my little town has seen moderating temperatures of late. Not that Mother Nature can fool me at my age, because I know she has more surprises ahead. But, this week has been a… Read More »

The Floor That Creaks

You look at the room in the house that seems so perfect. It is an older home, but it has the charm and character and the ambiance that keeps calling you back to it. But then there is that floor. You notice every time you visit the home the floor in that big beautiful room – the one… Read More »