Autumn is Coming in the Winter of My Life Early September and at first glance there are no signs of autumn anywhere. It’s just as hot and muggy as it was in July. But the trees and flowers look aged. They don’t look like the children they were in the spring and early summer. Time has… Read More »
Please Pardon My Grammar Partner Many times I’ve had my use of the English language criticized and my grammar scoffed at by the Grammar Police, but it don’t bother me, I tells ya. All those criticisms just roll off me like water off a duck. I’ve been out of college for more years than some of… Read More »
Growing Old is Easy It’s hard to believe that autumn is just around the corner. It seems just the other day I was sweating my way through mowing the grass on the first “official” weekend of summer – that would be Memorial Day Weekend for those of you who don’t live in the USA. I don’t… Read More »
Sam When I was growing up, I stayed with my grandparents on the weekends and during my summer vacations from school. Not because I was sent there, but because I loved being with my grandparents. And, when I was 7 or 8, there were no other kids in the neighborhood my age, so my grandfather spent a… Read More »
Keep the Candle Burning He left the candle burning, 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… Read More »
We Are All Stardust You wake up and you look out your bedroom window and you see it’s 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… Read More »