Six Sentence Stories – The Contract
Hector’s hand hovered above the paperwork, unmoving, uncooperative, disobedient to the urging in his mind. He knew the contract was bad from the start and he never should have started the project; no one agrees to terms like these, but when a man is just desperate enough he’ll agree to anything. Well, almost anything…there are some things even…
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What Makes Me Weak
No one likes to admit weakness. We prefer to present ourselves as strong and capable, fearless and invincible, to the world and to ourselves. But no one is without their Achilles’ heel, their own personal Kryptonite. It’s different for each of us, of course. But let’s talk about Achilles and Superman for just a minute… Achilles’…
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TToT – A Week of Weird
This has been a weird and crazy week. For starters, our parenting efforts have included addressing the topics of clubs that include only certain people and exclude others, balls (yes, that kind), menstrual periods, why some men might prefer to dress as women, and why poems about knife-wielding gummy bears are not appropriate material for the…
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Six Sentence Stories – Reflection on a Railway
How much power lives in a moment? Life churns along, making steady progress across the landscape. You travel slowly up mountains, calmly across plateaus, more rapidly down hills on the other side; the legs of the journey vary, but always take you forward. You decide you’re making good time, estimate your anticipated arrival, and settle comfortably for a nap,…
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TToT – A (Sick) Day of Rest
I don’t know if I’ve had the everlasting upper respiratory cold or several one right after another. Either way, I’ve been dealing with this nonsense since about New Year’s Day and I’ve had just about enough. I figure I’ll finally ditch the winter cold junk just in time for the spring allergy nonsense. I’m trying…
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Be Careful What You Wish For
What would you change if you knew how your life would unfold? Would you eat healthier? Exercise more? Would you take better care of your teeth? Maybe you would get up the nerve to ask out the cute guy in your French class. Or maybe you would wisely say “no” when the cute guy at the…
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Six Sentence Stories – Waiting
The post would be late again today. There was no way to know this for certain, of course, except for the fact that the post was always late. Susannah’s daddy always said a man could set his pocket watch by the lateness of the stagecoach that brought the mail, if a man had a pocket watch…
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Sucker Punched
It is impossible not to feel like a fool when you’re lying on the ground I can throw a dozen life metaphors at you, but let’s go with the one in which life is a boxing match. You dance around a bit, execute some fancy footwork, throw a punch here, a jab there, duck and weave…
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Six Sentence Stories – Take My Hand
“That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body.” He sat in the pew, staring, listening, recalling those words read from the pulpit on his own wedding day, his bride standing next to him in the same spot where the young couple…
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TToT – Catching Up, Transitions, and Change
I can’t help but think lately that life is a constant string of transitions. We spend most of our lives moving from one phase to another: from youth to adulthood, from school to work, from one relationship to another, from one job to another…our movement is constant and sure. That’s not to say that we…
