Tag: summer

  • Sharing Stories

    Sharing Stories

    Do we tell, or share stories?  I feel like it depends on two factors: The audience and the context.  People tell stories to get a laugh, but people share stories to reveal truths. There are some stories I’ve told 100 times and there are others I’ve only shared once or twice.  Oddly, some of the…

  • Back “Home”

    Back “Home”

    I don’t have any immediate family left in New York State these days, but I have enough people that still feel like family. They’re the type of friends you fall back into rhythm with like a musician picking up an old guitar that’s been in a dusty closet for a year. It takes a few…

  • Moving

    Moving

    Most of us have moved at least once in our lives, but many more of us have packed up our belongings (including the things we should have thrown away) to relocate more times than we care to count. After my initial cross country venture to Colorado, I’ve loaded up my life three more times to…

  • Summer

    Summer

    The word summer means a plethora of things to a great many people. It could be a day at the lake or maybe crushing frosty beverages at a weekend BBQ because that’s a rule. It could be a break from the kids after sending them off to camp for the week because you deserve it.…