Google anything in images and the bizarre and unrelated will appear somewhere on the page. Like a tee-shirt espousing a person’s stand on a controversial subject. The gist of which was “I did this so you, being sanctimonious, can continue to do that.” A pot calling a kettle black made even more amusing by the […]
The horizon has a soft yellow glow that reminds me of my first time at a planetarium. The fake sky dome transformed from a soft glow to an amazing starry blue-black sky in minutes. The neighbor’s palm trees need trimming. The lower branches have lost their green and are sadly drooping. Age caught up with them. […]
We had a stray visitor this morning. Not the first time. We have a big fluffy calico who wanders around now and then. The first time I saw her, she was traipsing around on the half column outside and knocked out one of the bricks. It spooked the both of us. She confuses our front patch of lawn for a […]
I didn’t know until recently just how frugal my grandfather was. I never felt or noticed he was that way. But when I was born, he was married to a woman I regarded as my grandmother. She took good care of us and bought us nice things when we visited. In my grandfather’s defense, he […]
The younger you are, the slower time passes. Then, when you’re my age, the days fly by like the rapid release of calendar pages in old movies. I only remember one Christmas from before the age of five. But it starts with an earlier memory. Was it a month before? Two, three months? At that […]
I’m sitting on the patio with a cup of coffee and a square of chocolate, taking in the ghosts of the departed. Two chairs are where they left them, close to one side of the table, both for shade and conversation under the umbrella. A short distance away, an ashtray now empty, rests on a […]
My sister in law’s youngest brother came to visit her in New Jersey once. He spent most of his time watching tv. There were seven channels to watch into the wee hours of the morning. I think a couple of them aired 24 hours at that time. Where he lived, there were only a few channels and […]
I was fifteen. They just turned thirty. I don’t know why they wanted me around, but they did. They were a nice couple. The son had inherited his father’s moving business and I knew many teenage boys who worked as movers for them, including my brother. I sat in their living room with their longtime […]
I rushed out to pick up a strawberry cheesecake for the block party. New in town, I relished the opportunity to meet some neighbors. The gray and white striped tabby lying dead on the quiet side street startled me. I slowed as I passed and was reminded of the street I lived on when I […]
In one of our many homes, there was a kind of long built-in storage area upstairs. It could almost have been a closet, but it was angled from the roof and wasn’t really a place to hang clothing. Because of the angle, it wasn’t even a place an adult could stand up in. It wasn’t […]