Category Archives: Essays

Thanksgiving Memories

Thanksgiving Memories 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 a gray, cold and cloudy day; the steamy windows that cooking made and snowflakes in the air. This was… Read More »

Friends

Friends At first I pretended. I tricked myself into thinking it didn’t matter much that you were no longer my friend. We were good friends and then we weren’t – it’s as simple as that. It’s kind of like being told you have a terminal illness – at first you deny it, then someday you realize, that you… Read More »

With A Single Flake Of Snow

With 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. The autumn leaves, glorious and resplendent, catch our attention as we hurry through our lives; but that first flake of snow is the sentry of winter and we like to pretend… Read More »

My Dying Day

My Dying Day One of life’s great blessings is that not one of us knows the exact day we will die. Well, at least I think so. I could not imagine being a teenager and knowing how many years I would live or the date of my death. That would take away the fun and great advantage of… Read More »

Thoughts on an October Day

Thoughts on an October Day And you look down at the village and it’s all dressed in bright yellows and burnt oranges and fiery reds – the trees are literally ablaze with color. You are floating between summer and winter on the ghostly gossamer wings floating on the breath of an ephemeral and anachronistic summer wind — so… Read More »

Time In a Bottle

Time In a Bottle “If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I’d like to do Is to save every day till eternity passes away Just to spend them with you…” (Jim Croce) The other day my youngest son sent me a picture of my granddaughter taking a hike with him in an beautiful… Read More »