As I walk down the street, I see two men walking ahead of me. At a bit of a distance they see each other, one quickly turns, looks both ways, crosses the street and continues his trek down the street. One might conclude he was going to do something on the other side of the […]
I checked the oil in the engines, filled the gas, sprayed a little quick start in the carburetor. A couple of pulls of the handle and the engine was clicking. Rolling it around to the garden, I began my efforts to break up the ground and prepare for seeding. I had been waiting for window […]
I looked between the lines in the book trying to see the meaning behind the words. When I was in school, I was taught there was always a deeper meaning beneath the lines. The construction of the sentences and their order held a greater importance than simply what I read. That is one of the […]
Our lives intertwine with friends and family. We choose the friends, sometimes by geographical vicinity, sometimes by group participation, and sometimes by career. Sometimes having friends is by trial and error. Relationships can offer an uplifting experience or sometimes make a toxic mix within our lives. Thus the trial and error. Family relationships add the […]
I pulled into the gates of the festival grounds and before I pulled even a few feet beyond the entrance, I could hear the musical notes flowing on the wind from the distance of the trees. I could see people carrying their guitars, banjos and other instruments along the dirt road as I slowly made […]
I turned on the television and found a movie of interest. I set a stack of holey socks beside me along with my sewing kit. I turned the sock inside out. I slipped the light bulb up inside and positioned it near the heel. I threaded the white thread into the needle and tied a […]
Often times in life we fold over the calendar page only to see a date that marks a memory, an anniversary, a birthday, which we may or may not wish to experience again. We mark our lives by milestones – graduations, weddings, funerals, and all that happens in between. I recently read a wonderful article […]
I placed the quarter in the hand of Uncle Sam and hit its trigger and the coin dropped down into the open bag below clicking to the bottom of the bank. It was a fun to save in a similar way my grandparent’s generation had. While it taught me the tendency to save throughout my […]
We mark our lives in time by the passage of time. We celebrate birthdays and anniversaries and if we should hit longevity in our experiences, it generally involves many other people acknowledging the moment in our live. In the United States, collectively, we just passed a marker in television history. The TV police drama series […]
Have you ever been in a room, and someone walks in and with your body you feel in your center mass of your chest a quiver. As they draw closer to you, the disturbance within increases in its frequency of movement. Of course, exposing this in a public situation would be uncomfortable, so instead you […]
