Monthly Archives: April 2017

Once you begin thinking about four-letter words, they appear everywhere. On billboards, road signs, even coupons: best, free and love. My list didn’t begin with love but soon I noticed a connection. I love to read. I love word(s). I … Continue reading →

Love to Vote

In the buzz and crush of humanity, ebbing and flowing about me I heard a high pitched and urgent voice cry out, “Carter, where are you?”.  I assumed this wayward child would soon be captured and harnessed to his mother … Continue reading →

Time is all contained in two eternities; the past and the future.  The present is really non-existent. Think for just a minute or two and you can adjust your life long thinking that may have led you to thinking there is … Continue reading →

First, what actually is a talent?  What if someone can spit a watermelon seed ten feet?  Is that a talent?  Or eat a hot dog in seven seconds?  Or make a funny face?  Or whistle a pretty tune?   Next, … Continue reading →

Storykeepers Biking home from Pelican Pens the other day, I considered the prompt and the first object that came to mind was a small statue of a Navajo Storyteller. It is small enough to fit in the palm of my … Continue reading →

This Side of Paradise

C’ est la vie!   When I was nine years old my parents surprised me with a brand new Estey piano. I’d had been away at summer camp and will never forget the thrill of walking in the front door, … Continue reading →

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon way up in the north of Michigan and I do mean way up in the Keweenaw Peninsula.  Calumet township Yellow Jacket location.  There is a Red Jacket and a Blue Jacket too but I … Continue reading →