My shelves of Thanksgiving
I want to tell you about my shelves. I have these two shelves in my house. I hung them on my wall last winter. I was very sad at the time, and accomplishing a thing, even something as simple as hanging shelves, made me me feel better. Because drilling holes into a wall and putting up something where nothing was … Read more
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Elk River Hiking Trail – a part of Kansas you need to know
Seriously, if you have never visited the Elk River Hiking Trail, near Independence, you are cheating yourself and your life isn’t quite all it could be. Take a weekend and go. You don’t have to hike the entire 15 miles like Mitch and I did – but if you can, you certainly won’t regret it. You’ll be tired and sore, … Read more
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10 quick thoughts on the 2016 election
Last night was the big once-every-four-year party known as the Presidential elections. Today, though, it’s the morning after and some of us our are looking at the person in bed with us thinking “Jesus! How much did I drink last night? I don’t even remember talking to anyone?” Others are happy as a pig in shit because they’ve just broken … Read more
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Woah! Wait! Donald Trump is a womanizer?
So, you’re shocked and outraged at the latest revelation that Donald Trump said something derogatory about women? And this, you think, will be the thing that sinks his presidential campaign? That’s the vibe I’m getting from my social media feed today, and I’m over here shaking my head in disbelief. Really, we needed this slice of tape to know how … Read more
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The sweetest taste of life
I don’t think Mitch understood how I could be laughing and crying all at once. He looked at me with some concern, and asked me if I was alright. “Yes,” I said. “It’s euphoria, I think. It’s too much feeling for either laughing or crying, so they both happen at the same time. Like the last part of that movie Kill Bill, … Read more
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A family friend
This is my family’s dog, BG. It’s short for Baby Girl, which is a ridiculous name, but you know how dog names go – they get the one that seems to fit. And this one seemed to fit. My daughter Erica and I went to Pratt to buy her when my son Mitch was seven years old. It was a … Read more
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Transitions, monkey bars and CYOA
I’ll sometimes sit outside in the early morning drinking coffee, thinking and watching the sky. There’s this space between the night and day that I love. It’s dark, still night time. The birds aren’t yet awake, the wind hasn’t started to stir the trees. But in the east, there’s a change. Not light, but a different shade of black, one … Read more
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