The night storm slams rain onto the lonely highway, shooting his lightning daggers near. In an instant, the world reverts to slow-motion, tires leave the pavement and spin me 360-degrees. Losing [Read more...]
Mired in a holiday traffic snarl, I drum on my steering wheel, inching forward slow as a slug on a sidewalk. As I wait and scan the never-noticed-before landscape, I spy a fleeting movement in the [Read more...]
Snug as a bug in a rug. The rhyme whispered a familiar cadence in my head as I witnessed the same ingenuity over and over. Fascinated, I determined to get a close-up photograph. Blurry…oops she [Read more...]
Their faces upturned. Waiting, Expectant. Was this Mzungu (white person) going to impart anything useful? Anything interesting? A tapestry of beauty and color, these women sat along the work [Read more...]
Swigging hot beverages, the patrons gazed at laptops, typing like mad or just staring in a mesmerized trance. Some chatted in easy camaraderie with smiling friends. Others settled back on the [Read more...]
Red River sunset 2016 In that dimly lit room two thousand years ago, The terror was real. I picture a small, shuttered space, claustrophobic as they huddle together, hiding in fear [Read more...]
Oh but the trees… Our beautiful trees. Full of colorful leaves, wondrous to behold, but lethal to a limb when covered with layer upon layer of ice. Those red and yellow leaves we so loved, [Read more...]
That sound The one that soothes my soul The one that makes me want to sit for hours And cast my eyes upon his beauty. The soft whisper of the brook beside me, washing, flowing, [Read more...]