Mar 10, 2015 | A Day In The Life, Aha! Moments, Verses
I pushed the button. I turned the knob. I got a flame. For about three and half seconds. Try as I might, I could not get the pilot light of my gas fireplace to stay lit. And if that wasn’t happening, there was no way that a roaring fire to warm my cold...
Mar 9, 2015 | A Day In The Life, Aha! Moments, Verses
Funny things happen when you resemble Tom Sawyer. When you put on a pair of overalls and head toward that fence with brush in hand, you get the benefit of Tom’s familiarity and likability. Neighbors and strangers who mention the similarity between the two of...
Mar 8, 2015 | A Day In The Life, Aha! Moments, Verses
Sometimes all you have is the paintbrush in your hand. I stood in front of the small fence that runs across our front yard. There were a lot a things that I didn’t know yesterday. But whether or not this fence needed a little paint was not one of them. I knew...
Mar 5, 2015 | A Day In The Life, Aha! Moments, Verses
(We experienced a “closed door” at the Jarvis House this week. This is what processing looks like in my head…) Hear that? It’s the sound of a door closing. You’re walking forward, careful but confident, approaching a door way that...
Feb 25, 2015 | A Day In The Life, Aha! Moments, Verses
The tears come fast and hard. Dreams and plans that have been whirling in my head threaten to come crashing down around me as the spinning plates of circumstance wobble above my head. There are too many variables. Too many things that have to fall into place. Way...
Feb 24, 2015 | A Day In The Life, Aha! Moments, Verses
Imagine this: A wiry, hairy beast with arms longer than any ten foot pole that could keep him away. Googly, bulging, bloodshot eyes and a slobbering tongue hanging from a mouth only half full of rotten yellow teeth. His feet are narrow and flat, yet he jumps up and...
