Our bed moves. Not in a ghostly way, it’s not levitating several feet off the ground. Nor are my husband and I engaging in romantic gymnastics, those days are over before they began. Our bed simply slides on the wood floor and before we know it, it has moved inch…
It had been two months since Santa was here There were no more gifts yet to buy So imagine the shock my husband felt Did he let out a curse or a sigh? For when he’d left home a few hours before The porch held only trash that was canned…
“If every diner I go to cannot make bacon crispy when I order EXTRA crispy, how are we ever going to right all the wrongs?” —— Sister Rain #sisterrain #alittlesightalotofheart #legallyblindwriter #humaninterest #life #lifeisgood #lifestories #storytelling
Leaving Josephine’s Mercantile in Port Orchard, Washington, my husband stopped to show me a box of Scrabble tiles, all available for $.25, so that you may take home the “R” or the “X” you are missing to complete your set. It was an ingenious idea, one built on the most…
You know how they say couples who are together for a long period of time start to look alike? We can also rub off on each other in other ways. My husband has become more organized and the tiniest bit more forceful. I have calmed down a little and have…
Let me preface this story by assuring you that I have never nor will I ever use AI to write my stories. EVER. I started this website in 2011, long before most of us could have imagined such a thing as Artificial Intelligence. I write because I love to, and…
For the past three years, my husband and I have rented the same house outside of Seattle on the Puget Sound. The dates of our weeks there have spanned the months of October, November and December and each year, no matter what the calendar says, in the front yard of…
As I write about in It May Not Be Hell But Something Has Frozen Over (click here), after fighting the idea, I purchased heated vests for my husband and me. We had endured too many outside events where, despite layers of clothing, we were cold, cold enough to not be…
Driving along the coast in Washington state, I saw what I thought was a small boat by itself in the water. I asked my husband if that was what it was and he confirmed that I was correct. Completely without emotion, I commented, “Isn’t it crazy that I can’t see…
