An Ode to Ketchup My grandfather taught me a lot of things, and most of the things he taught me have stuck with me my whole life — like my love of ketchup. I can remember going on vacation with my grandparents and watching Grandpa smother fried eggs and hash brown potatoes in ketchup in restaurants from… Read More »
Leave the Candle Burning – Reprise 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… Read More »
Her Seventh Birthday I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately. Maybe because on September 28th, we would have been celebrating your seventh birthday. And had you not been taken from us, by now you would have learned to sit up, crawl, walk, talk, color, write your name, ride a bike, and be busy growing up. Such… Read More »
October’s Overture October’s arrival brings with it the final dagger in the heart of those long summer days. The trees, tired and tarnished, tremble with the touch of the early twilight. The leaves, once lush and lively, now languish, their verdant vibrancy waning like a soft, whispered farewell. The changing seasons’ symphony is a soothing serenade of… Read More »
I Wonder Do we ever really get things figured out? I wonder. Yesterday, on my four-mile walk, I noticed that my little town has quite a few payday loan shops, rent-to-own stores, and places where you give them the title to your car or motorcycle and they give you a cash loan. Seems odd to me that… Read More »
Try to Remember the Sound of the Rain Have you ever taken the time to listen to the rain? Have you closed your mind to everything but the sound of the rain falling from the sky on the roof, on the streets, on the trees? Right now it is a sunny day and for all the… Read More »