Good Will Trees by Keri Horon The doors slid wide open fluorescent lights beamed blue carts floated by a baby then screamed Shoppers were busy cashiers super stressed the bins piled high the floors [...]
For more than half the year, pumpkins of every size, shape, and color live on my front porch. They arrive in late September and stay ’til their condition warrants a sneaky, middle-of-the-night visit to the [...]
Remember the excitement of knowing, upon waking up on a beautiful morning during summer break, that you were going to go to an amusement park that day? The butterflies in your stomach as you thought [...]
The dog days of summer arrived. “Dog days of summer,” it turns out, has nothing to do with canines lying around to beat the heat; the expression comes from the ancient Greeks who believed that [...]
My eyelids opened to a semi-dark room which made me think it was earlier than my usual wake-up time. It wasn’t, though. Slate gray clouds were pouring out rain; I could hear the drainpipes working [...]
Of pickled peppers? Nope. There’s no connection here to the pepper-picking piper. The PEC I am pondering focuses on picture cards. These picture cards posed as the primary form of communication for Zach for a [...]
I can’t recall exactly when Zach began noticing butterflies. It’s a love affair that’s been going on for quite a while now. It may have started after the bees. During the lockdowns in 2020 and [...]
It was a blistering hot day soon after we moved from the Bay Area to the Central Valley. The Mediterranean climate of the Bay is something I was grateful for during the 20+ years we [...]
One foggy morning a few years ago, after I dropped Zach off at his beloved school, I decided to do the coffee shop + laptop thing. I have to admit, I was not in the [...]
What little child doesn’t scream, cry, or freeze up when introduced to Santa for the first time? Maybe there are some littles who reach exuberantly for the man with the white beard and round belly [...]
