My husband Ray has come down with COVID for the first time. He started feeling bad a few days back, but we thought he was reacting to the high ragweed count. He is highly allergic and was coughing, wheezing, and feeling tired, which are typical reactions for him to ragweed. However, he felt especially bad…

One Monday evening in the fall, I was sauntering down the street to the convenience store when I happened to glance in the front window of the Ferguson’s house. Inside the dark living room, I could see the big color television was tuned into “The X-Files.” I knew Bobby who lived there and he loved…

I didn’t know that I had any real inclination to be a writer until I was a freshman at the University of Texas, Austin, and I had an English class where we had to produce a 500-word essay weekly. Our first topic (and the only one I remember) was to write an essay on John…

This story came from the prompt: a flashlight, a pair of blue shoes, and a library card. I posted a first draft of this a few days ago but have since edited it, cutting 120 words. I think it’s a tighter and cleaner version now. I will read this to my writing group and get…

Today, I found the three books pictured below at a garage sale and paid $2 each for them. I have spent much of the afternoon reading a bit in each and am pleased to say that all three are excellent. I will be diving further into the fiction starting with Where the Crawdads Sing, and…

With my cell phone at the repair shop, I realized laying my hands on an “old-fashioned” flashlight was going to be a challenge. Especially since I had only ten minutes before I needed to rush out the door to be on time for my Spanish tutoring session at the local library. But the truth was…

Do what needs to be done Big and small Easy and hard Tackling tasks in Whatever time they take Understanding Life has a rhythm and a pace An ebb and a flow like Waves lapping the shore My job is to Stay focused and Do what needs to be done A little every day No…