Category: family

Rookie Green Thumb

I sucked up a lemon seed through my straw while drinking iced tea and dropped it into soil with some fertilizer…boom-eight weeks later I have a lemon tree.

Little boy Bobby

This baby face I have never kissed but know so well as it is one I grew up alongside and then again held as my own.

Inked for life

His first tattoo was at the age of 14 in 1952 paying homage to his mother and brothers.
I assumed all dads were covered in artwork and words.

Reality Check

I sincerely wish everyone could have the luck of living strong and healthy until old age then peacefully go to sleep waking with their beloved on the other side. However, that is not close to reality or how life works.

Tracks in the snow

Today for the first time since this journey began, I was shown our bitter sweet reality in the most beautiful and gentle way

Gone Fishin’

Have you ever gone fishing? If you haven’t, well, that’s okay I won’t judge just as long as you give it a try

Tragic Poetry

I found an answer hidden on a hillside
Apart from new stones telling the same story

Orchids & Puddles

5000 miles away your daughter sends a picture to you of the colored orchid she sees growing in the wild.
He sees a puddle then looks at her and smiles as he jumps and splashes her with the water.