Snow Play at Dusk
The snow is melting and it is time to go back to real life but some of us are begging to play “…just for a few more minutes, Mom!”
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The snow is melting and it is time to go back to real life but some of us are begging to play “…just for a few more minutes, Mom!”
Read moreTiger Eye Daily Photo Hillary Clinton said, “It takes a village” and I’ve seen the truth of that in my own children. Just this Spring, Redway Feed donated pots and plants to Salmon Creek School for the kids to plant and raise both for learning purposes and for entering in the wonderful local Weott Garden Show. The kids, including my
Read moreClass Photo with Plants Daily Photo Salmon Creek kids harvested a wheelbarrow of prizes at the annual Weott Garden show. With beautiful plants and pots donated by Tommy Harwood, the new owner of Redway Feed and soil donated by Sylvandale, each child planted their own mini garden. Then, with flowers donated from community members’ gardens, the children made bouquets. To
Read moreSaturday evenings in small towns plod tiredly along for most teenagers. There seems nothing to do. There is no one they haven’t seen already. And, no place they haven’t been before. So they often end up down on the riverbar drinking another keg of beer that someone’s older brother bought for them. In our little town, however, there is
Read moreEven dancing on frozen fragments of sky, Little boys Prefer to Barely tiptoe Rather than Thrust wiggly toes into stiff shoes.
Read moreStorytellers embellish, change the order of truth, change truth, and, in fact, sometimes, they lie. If they are good storytellers, they do this in order to expose a larger, more universal truth. But, whether my natural inclination as a storyteller serves a greater purpose or not, the fact is I struggle constantly against the tendency to fabricate reality in inappropriate
Read moreWhat is it about a man who will get down and romp with kids? Even an ugly one looks sexy and Nathan Fillion…. Well, he’d melt the Queen of Winter herself.
Read moreTry to see things from his perspective. Picture splashing in your bubble bath. Maybe you should hum something childish to help you capture the contented mood. Enjoy the sudsy goodness for a moment in your mind. Dip the yellow rubber duckie into the white foam and giggle at the beard that drips off it’s bill. But, don’t close
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