AT LARGE
Garden Time
Above photo courtesy of iStock user Marina Lohrbach. “You still have time.” The young lady at the garden center had been watching from a distance and edged closer to overhear our conversation rife with indecision. There was a bit of laughter in our back and forth, with remembrances of a small garden plot created well in the past just outside a distant kitchen door. “Just [...]
Play Ball
It was in the middle of yet another winter storm. The “New England Cocktail” was in full view – snow, sleet, and freezing rain well stirred with a gusting wind of 40 mph pushing against the windows. The age-old quandary of “shovel now or shovel later” was temporarily displaced by another cup of coffee and a stint at the computer. News headlines first, we braced [...]
Psychological Spring
It was not too terribly long ago that the doldrums of winter, stretching through January and February, could be mitigated with one visit to the mailbox. Long nights and days of howling winds seemed to be on the menu day after day with the dejected weather forecasters droning on about “mostly cloudy and cold with a chance of snow.” But then, without warning, it appeared. [...]
Life Lessons
An’ here I sit so patiently Waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of Going through all these things twice – Bob Dylan One might suspect that after decade upon decade spent meandering this fair Earth of ours, even a besotted toadstool might’ve acquired a nugget or two of what passes as wisdom, but then, that’s a hard thing [...]