The Ruby Year (on our Fifteenth Anniversary)

He gave me a red stone. A ruby pendant dangled, round and full like a pomegranate, wrapped in the Sunday comics, the only colored pages  in the midst of stories told in black and white.  “I thought you’d like it,” he said, and I did....

On Our Anniversary (Let’s Dance)

I’ve seen better days, dripping down your face.  We don’t have to talk, let’s dance.  – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros We’re fourteen years in – seven years without kids and seven years with – so it feels like...

Answers to Prayer

The realtor’s car flew along green fields and over rolling hills.  Seated in the back seat, a small and simple prayer formed in my mind. Looking up and out the wide, flat glass of the windshield, I glimpsed a cherry-red Cardinal...

Taking out the Trash (an invitation to Love)

“If what you see from the eye doesn’t please you, then close your eyes and see from the heart.” – Anonymous I watch as the tall white plastic container slowly fills throughout the day.  By evening it’s reached maximum capacity and I do a...
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