How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life? Sometimes folks don’t believe, when I share the story about learning to drive. By the time I came along, my dad was retired. We did odd jobs. And I do mean odd. One job my dad did was trimming outContinue reading “Drive or die”
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Winter Season
Please be advised ADULT LANGUAGE! God told me so Oscar’s weekends were like gold. He needed them in order to decompress and regroup for the week ahead. He had just gotten up on Saturday morning, Esther and he had plans. There came that all too familiar pounding at his door. There stood his mother andContinue reading “Winter Season”
Winter Season
Your Disability Esther and Oscar were cuddled up on the couch. She was lying in her favorite spot. Listening to the beating of his heart. Occasionally, she would open her eyes only to see the rain still pouring down. The brick wall of his house was a rainy blur. “How do you think that windowContinue reading “Winter Season”
Not today
Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done. Not today ~ You get me from point A to B. Nothing about you is free. ~ We have a lot of good times together. In all kinds of weather. ~ The major things get done. Let someone else have that fun. ~ It needs toContinue reading “Not today”
Winter Season
Pot roast and Facebook The house smelt divine. He walked straight from the door to the kitchen sniffing of the air. She slid her arms around his waist and laid her head on his back. “I thought you were going to spank me for not eating lunch?” He said playfully. “Oh, I gave it seriousContinue reading “Winter Season”
Which came first?
The chicken or the egg? Dance or music? Poetry or song? *Ballet with no music can be ridiculous. ~ Which came first? The tear or duck tape? The rubber or the road? The flat tire or the fix-a-flat? Eggs without bacon can be ridiculous. ~ Which came first? Honey or the bee? The moon orContinue reading “Which came first?”
Winter Season
Lent Oscar stood in the teacher’s lounge staring out the window. Instead of eating lunch, he gave serious consideration to taking a nap. He calculated in his head how long it would take to walk out to his SUV, and the time it would take to get back. What a day. His phone chimed. ItContinue reading “Winter Season”
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?
What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it? I have discovered I have a fear of failure: atelophobia.
Winter Season
Cast the first stone Esther threw her head back laughing, “let he that is without sin cast the first stone.” “I beg your pardon.” Brother Evan looked shocked. “Beg all you want. So tell me how’s Brother Joel?” Brother Evan turned pale at the mention of the man’s name. “I’m afraid I don’t know whomContinue reading “Winter Season”
The 2 great W’s
What do you complain about the most? Work and the weather.
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