Category: Home Work
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Holiday Destiny | East Wenatchee, WA | 2018 Today I’m dishing up four classic riddles (OK, they’re really stupid jokes) for Thanksgiving Day. Use them as childish distractions whenever anyone tries to talk politics at the table …
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Water Glass | East Wenatchee, WA | 2018 My two favorite cosmic particles — photons and water molecules — play well together. Water is often at its best when
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Jeans | Belfast, ME | 2018 Bertha, the maid who took care of us as kids, used to say she knew everything about me when she hung my jeans on the line. Frayed hems: “You a sloppy walker,” she said. Worn seat: “Lordy, too much TV.” Broken zipper: “I don’t even want to guess.” And…
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Toaster | Seattle, WA | 2017 “But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a time, it didn’t think that its master, who lived alone and seemed to have few friends, would have wanted
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Asparagus | East Wenatchee, WA | 2017 “Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with
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Drain | East Wenatchee, WA | 2017 A tiny black ant scouts for meaning and purpose — OK, maybe food — on the vast porcelain bowl of our bathroom sink. The faucet emits one drop of water every six seconds, which — if timed perfectly — is enough to wash the ant down the drain.…
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Pears | East Wenatchee, WA | 2017 “Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a
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Suit Coat | Wenatchee, WA. | 2017 “Now I’m way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot, and paint my toes black or
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Skylight| Seattle, WA | 2016 “People,” Caroline thought, “were like houses. They could open their doors. You could walk through their rooms and touch objects hidden
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Avocado | East Wenatchee, WA | 2016 Look closely. “There is, in every event and object, a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find
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