Thoughts At Thanksgiving Time When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of myself as a young boy, watching the Thanksgiving parade on television, mom busy in the kitchen preparing our Thanksgiving dinner and the feeling of love all around. I remember gray, cold and cloudy days and the steamy windows that cooking made. And I remember Thanksgiving snowflakes… Read More »
Taking Care of a Dead Turkey Thanksgiving time is upon us again. To my Canadian friends, I’m sorry this is late (I’m sooooo ethnocentric!) Anyway… for all of us in the U.S. of A., Thanksgiving is nigh. I love that word – nigh. Anyway, since we refer to Thanksgiving here in the States as “turkey day”, I’m going… Read More »
The Elephants of Style and The Cardboard Lady So, I’m writing a short story and it is turning into a novel. And I begin to realize I should have not paid as much attention in English class. I find myself groaning over what is proper English, whether my verbs agree, whether my sentences are complete, or not –… Read More »
A Single Flake Of Snow With a single flake of snow, winter begins. Like that first faint shadow of twilight, we hardly take notice of it. Our lives begin with a single breath – and end with one final one. Spring begins with a single flower and fades into summer – and we hardly notice. Like our children… Read More »
He Left 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 »
Columbus Day Why don’t we have a Michael Vick Day? Or an Adolph Hitler Day? Because it would be ridiculous, that’s why. Some of today’s heroes aren’t worthy. We all want our heroes to be real heroes – someone we can respect and look up to. Not some nefarious human being whose wealth leads them spiraling downward into… Read More »