Homemade soup and scratch-made Focaccia bread. Simple deli meat sandwiches on soft white bread topped with crisp lettuce and garden-fresh tomatoes. Volunteer football win. Afternoon nap. Hoodie. No make-up or hair dryer hum. A favorite historical fiction novel, the ending I know. Pumpkin scented lotion. Old friends, inside jokes and new memories of outside adventures. […]
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As I stood there, I watched the two men walk away down the path from the patio, pass the lilies, to the driveway. The older one being led by the younger one. I never had noticed that their heads were shaped similarly with the same balding spots on their respective crowns. The older one’s back […]
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Tomorrow starts the third week of the girls’ summer break from school. Over the years we have developed some structure for the girls’ free mornings so they wouldn’t spend all day every day glued to some screen or begin begging us for something to “do” at 10 am each day. I am not sure which […]
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