My first crush occurred when I was nine years old. In fourth grade I sat beside Patti, the prettiest girl in the class. She was smart and talented and popular and funny and charming. One day, the teacher assigned an exercise which tested our abilities to compose a letter. After…
My love,my all,my everything is the first words of my Grandfathers vows he said it to my grandmother and you knew he meant it. He would go to say that to her many more times. It seemed like all the time. My Grandpa went to developing Alzheimer’s and was always…
It was a week before Christmas we hadn’t put up any decor at all because we didn’t have any! We were a brand new married couple,with a one year old and our jobs weren’t great. I had been stressing all week about trying to make this Christmas a special one…
Every Sunday morning I take a light jog around a park near my home. There’s a lake located in one corner of the park. Each time I jog by this lake, I see the same elderly woman sitting at the water’s edge with a small metal cage sitting beside her.…
