I was awake earlier than I needed to be on this Sunday morning but I was ok with that. It gave me a chance to talk, this new day and I, to our common Creator. I moved slowly in my kitchen, the year-long white Christmas lights strung around the ceiling simmering warm hues. The girl …
I was wearing mint green “baby doll” pajamas, the kind that have the matching shorts and flowy, crepey short top that shows them off. They were popular then, like the Brady Bunch and harvest gold kitchen appliances and shag carpet were popular. I was 5 days into being 11, all gangly legs and cats …
I spent the better part of this afternoon with a friend; we ciphered out 21 years we’ve seen each other through now. All kinds of turns unexpected; sometimes the road has gotten pretty pock marked and the wheels under us needed new shocks. But we’ve made it this far. I got back in the car …
The girl and I had planned for months to go back to Tennessee. It hugged us close the last time we were there and we needed to feel it again. I drove in the quiet of the morning and captured quick my view as it disappeared behind me. The girl turned on The Great British …
Two years ago, at this same time of year, I found myself with a terminally ill car and not enough resources to get another one of any better quality. It wasn’t that I didn’t save my money. It wasn’t that I didn’t live within my means. It’s just that my savings and my means didn’t …