Month: January 2026

Creak.  Creak.  Creak.  When the weather is really cold, walking on snow produces a creaking sound with every step.  When the weather is colder still, the snow makes a new sound.  It still creaks, but there’s another sound below that.  The pitch is deeper, and there’s a sharp linearity to the noise.  It’s more of… Continue reading Sounds and Stars

My friend Paul and his buds grew up playing hockey on the lake near his home.  There was a current on one side of the lake, and the ice was thinner there.  The kids knew they needed to stay away from that area.  They also took their hockey seriously.  For those reasons, the preferred area… Continue reading Bobsled

You never know what you’ll learn at the Thrift Shop.  Usually it’s customers who enlighten us, breezing by the counter when we’re trying to figure out the function of some donated item or how something works or the last three lines of the poem about the penguin. (“He can hold in his beak/ Enough food… Continue reading Fake Winter

     “I’ve got the funniest song running through my head, and I don’t know why,” I greeted my sweetheart as he strolled into the room this morning.      “What is it?” he was kind enough to inquire.      “‘Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter.’  It’s an old one.  Herman’s Hermits sang it in the… Continue reading Cloud Day