Neighborly Tales

I try to remember

that in any given second, there is only the patter of rainfall against a canvas tent roof. Or the ting of a wind chime, the call of a hawk, the creak of a swing, the flutter of a breeze through the leaves of a tree. There is nothing more. There is nothing less. The whole [...]

Record keeper

Sitting on the bottom shelf of the dining room bookcase are a row of fat, canvas-covered photo albums. They start at Nate’s birth, and dutifully carry on year after year, a line of brightly colored soldiers of family history. Some years, they’re scrapbooked meticulously. Others, they’re generated digitally from Kodak or Shutterfly. The most recent [...]

5:30 am to 6 am

The kitchen is clean. The window casts my reflection back at me; it’s dark out until well after 6:30 now. The coffee maker does its wind-up of grrr and pllllr like an engine rolling over  but not, and the water starts dripping into the carafe. I let the dogs out. I let the dogs back in. Sam [...]

Promise me something:

  No matter how old you get, you won’t stop making snow angels and testing waters, and pushing boundaries, leaving imprints of your longest reach, widest stride, and wings of white, even knowing they cannot ever last. Written for Six Word Fridays.