Silence. No traffic in the streets. Stores and restaurants are closed. Businesses shut down so employees can spend time with those they love, whether family or friends. Homes are open. Families are reminiscing. Friends are laughing. Joy is present. Sadness and sorrow are distant, dying embers of faint, color-faded memories. We stop and look aroundContinue reading “The Day After”
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The Action of Thankfulness
If I know anything, it’s this: compared to a lot of people, I am not wealthy in terms of legal tender. I’m not a pauper, but I am not a prince, either. I don’t spend a vast amount of time on comparative thinking. But it doesn’t require much thinking to realize my locality on theContinue reading “The Action of Thankfulness”
The Leaving
For the life of me, I’ll never understand picking leaves up off the lawn. I’ve always enjoyed walking through a yard full of leaves. It makes it feel more like fall. It also reminds me of hunting. But if you don’t like the look of fall covering your yard, mow them and leave them onContinue reading “The Leaving”
The Special Day
It was November 2021. It was a warm day and perfect weather for walking around five acres striving to induce labor. We were successful. Charity told me, “Either my water broke, or I have to get to the white porcelain bowlful of water in the nearest home posthaste.” As it turns out, we needed toContinue reading “The Special Day”
The Birthday Eve
My wife is a saint. Perhaps an angel. She still loves me. So that proves it. As I write, the boys are in bed, and she is busy in the kitchen preparing a surprise for Son #2. There is a banner spanning the entrance to our small dining area. It reads, “Happy 2nd Birthday.” ThereContinue reading “The Birthday Eve”
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