Striding through the airport this morning, Destiny notes the typical presence of newspapers—Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today—held aloft by focused readers in pin-stripes and gray flannel, wing-tips [...]
The Secret to Rubber-Soled Shoes The secret to rubber-soled shoes is that they are often imbued with the ghosts of deceased dogs, dogs who were loyal and eager to serve, [...]
In a land where the river was filling with salt, and the water was creeping into the garden patch, the iguanas climbed high and the sloths slunk low, and the [...]
Because it was my birthday this week, I decided to re-publish one of my very own favorites. Meow. . . After midnight the day-old loaves of bread in the bakery [...]
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: thankful, baking banana nut muffins, authentic, for that special__, keep busy, he was a rubber duckling, intemperate desires, sitting on a [...]
Ready Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: prepare for, it was the zipper, the worst, once upon a time, midnight in a perfect world, Monday is for [...]
Written with the prompts: this will be a difficult journey, you will have all the time you need, never questioned, don’t say anything, learn to__, open the box, what if [...]
Written with the prompts: don’t feed the ducks for health and hygiene, a door rattling in the wind, helpful, they come back to bless us My sister Darlene told me [...]
Every week when Lindsay came home from the grocery store she’d find a special treat in her brown paper grocery sacks, a gift from the flirtatious bag boy who seemed [...]
I choose San Francisco because I miss ocean air. I’ve been sleep walking in a dusty valley but the air in San Francisco is cold and saline. When you walk [...]