Noticing life out loud since 2011
Noticing life out loud since 2011
Today I went for a walk, little did I know that I would be taught a most valuable lesson about giving and receiving, from a 4 year old girl. About 1/2 way through my walk I crossed paths with two…
My kids find it embarrassing when I stop to take pictures of things like a pile of shoes on someone else’s porch, a muscle car in a parking lot, or of a stranger’s garden. I think the word they use…
I am one of ‘those people’ who can strike up a conversation with anyone and usually does. Today however, I was standing in line at Best Buy for the third trip related to my out of commission laptop and I…
After checking the itinerary no less than 700 times before heading to the airport, my youngest son and I were finally airborne and on our way to Minnesota for a long-awaited vacation at the lake. The day had gone without…
It was like Paul Bunyan meets Cirque Du Soleil and it all happened right in my front yard. It was Saturday morning. I saw him before he reached the house, he dropped a pile of orange rope on the ground…
The morning was sunny, Bobby’s mood was not. Bobby looked nothing short of defeated, his entire body drooped with exhaustion. “I underbid this job by a longshot, but it happens, and you still gotta finish the job and finish it…
I left for my run without my ipod. When I realized it I was annoyed, but given the fact that it took me nearly 1/2 a mile to notice it, I’d have to admit it wasn’t a tragedy after all. I’d spent most of the…
I recently attended a Celtic festival in Bristol borough. The festival took place in a small park located on the Delaware river. I didn’t realize there was a park located behind the wooden awning that shelters the entrance to the…
I suspected that writers use their life’s experiences to shape their work, but until I began taking classes, I really had no idea just how much they do. Class after class, and piece after piece more and more memories are…
I’ll get in the tree guy’s way me: Tree guy is there? 15 yr old son: Many tree guys me: How many tree guys? 15 yr old son: They’re in the backyard too, which is where I would be mowing. …