Excitement hung in the air like a birthday balloon at a three-year-old’s party. As I scurried from the packed tour bus, my feet first touched Israel’s soil at the ruins of Caesarea Maritime. My [Read more...]
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Our backyard spilled huge from the tiny brick house. Or so it seemed through the eyes of four year old me. These box-like structures in this modest East Texas neighborhood blended one after the other [Read more...]
I had been saving like crazy, For two years. The odometer on my little red car neared 150k miles, ushering in a new era of one annoying mechanical problem after another. It rang clear this car [Read more...]
Breath held, white knuckles exposed, we ride toward the epic climax. Transported through space and time, we dare believe this impending disaster can reverse itself into a victory for our hero. The [Read more...]
It stares sour. Recriminations whisper ire. My curly handwriting blurs before my eyes and dances death’s dirge. Months have marched steadily past, Ushering in defeat that taunts like a school yard [Read more...]
(pictured is chicory coffee, vanilla milk and choc chip cookie with a beater of dough, peanut butter hot chocolate with homemade marshmallows and grilled drum with cubed fried grits.) Happy New [Read more...]
(pictured is chicory coffee, vanilla milk and choc chip cookie with a beater of dough, peanut butter hot chocolate with homemade marshmallows and grilled drum with cubed fried grits.) Happy New [Read more...]
She was taught to disbelieve. Any notions of fantasies or make-believe lay dying, nipped in the bud. And she was only six years old, A steady walker toward the road of cynicism her mother had [Read more...]
I talked to you in the mall last night. Nearing closing time, the line of anxious children had ended and you greeted me warm by your “North Pole” sign. So I stopped and had a chat with you. I don’t [Read more...]