With today’s post, I’m choosing to focus on two completely different approaches to the back-to-school conversation. One is laugh-out-loud funny, because nothing cuts through the stress of change like humor, while the other is a somber, exquisite, and ultimately hopeful meditation on weather...
But nothing stops Corey – not even Lester’s dog – and soon the two friends are dodging traffic to cross Pimlico Road. All the details about the neighborhood make the story seem real. Author Karen Hesse apparently based it on memories of some real friends, dedicating the book to “the ...
Here was an ever-present sign of the ruin men brought upon their souls. Three o'clock struck, and four, and the half-hour rang its double chime, but Dorian Gray did not stir. He was trying to gather up the scarlet threads of life and to weave them into a pattern; to find...
Southern By Design Frame Of Mind Oh, the Places We See . . . Weekly Photo Challenge: Frame Castle Peephole – By the Wayside Guerilla Writing Framed Carto’s Logbook In the Frame — Men in Riot Gear? Rural Iowa Pastor Weekly Photo Challenge: Frame 4otomo Frame Summer holidays ...
How can you look into the eyes of the two children you claim to be looking out for by not leaving them without wonderful YOU, and consider killing their possible sibling, when you could do something about it prior to ever being in the position to MURDER your child in the first place?
of stable hands to manage and care for the horses, and found himself underwhelmed by the quality and inexperience of men sent to him from the local infantry depot. He once found a 'weedy-looking recruit shaking with fear' in a gangway between a line of two dozen gun horses jostling and ...
The screams of the dying Echo in my brain I struggle to breathe freely My senses on alert What draws me To this deadly ground What makes my heartbeat hurt Who are these men These children Of this useless war That sleeps in phantom slumber ...
Thus, I’d like to present an Official Jimmyschair Ranking of “SEEMINGLY INSIGNIFICANT THINGS THAT MAKE ADULT MEN FEEL LIKE FOREVER LOSERS” 10). Not realizing that a beer bottle isn’t a twist off and trying to twist the cap off until your palm really hurts. 9). Being asked by a ...
It’s two to three hours out of my day even when things go well. But if I miss a connection I can arrive at work needing another shave. It costs a ludicrous amount of money, too Other people’s music. It’s not that their choice might be awful, it’s just that I can’t skip...
Here was an ever-present sign of the ruin men brought upon their souls. Three o’clock struck, and four, and the half-hour rang its double chime, but Dorian Gray did not stir. He was trying to gather up the scarlet threads of life and to weave them into a pattern; to find his ...