The Doll My mother is impossible to shop for. She always buys for herself whatever she needs; Christmas, birthdays, or Mother’s Day be damned. We poor gift-givers are usually stranded without a clue about what to give her. Desperate and at a total loss one Christmas, I wandered among fellow clueless shoppers on my quest [...]
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The old man walks down halls cold as ice In a castle beyond Time’s roll of the dice Through corridors of dark and shadowed mist To at time in the past when there was no bliss. An ageless relic of battles long ago fought The old man searches for that which was sought In [...]
Now for something a little lighter… This is a story that I wrote a few years ago. It’s about an Easter egg hunt that my mom arranged for me one Easter Sunday when I was a wee lad. I hope you enjoy reading it… or re-reading it, if you’re one of the folks who’s seen [...]
There’s a big old oak tree out in my front yard that’s probably almost 100 years old. It was there when my father bought this property and started building this house. That was in 1953 or so. The tree was old then. It was probably a sapling when Coolidge was President. Of course, at that [...]
There hadn’t been a Christmas tree set up in my house in years, not since about ’91, when a then girlfriend talked me into it. About nine years later, in ’98, when my mom was living with me, I was walking through a neighborhood drugstore looking for something when I turned the corner into an [...]
