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Tag Archives: story
Pandemic memory: is there anyone else on earth?
In 2031 imagine your grandchild running into your kitchen grabbing a chocolate chip cookie and asking, “Grandma, what do you remember about the pandemic in 2020?” What do you say? How do you describe this year with so many challenges … Continue reading
Posted in What the Heart Knows
Tagged 2020, aloneness, holy, hush, memories, pandemic, presence, snow, story, story-telling, writing
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The “like button” twirls, curtsies and waves goodbye (or so we think)
Yesterday the “like button” twirled, curtsied and exited stage left, waving merrily goodbye as she left. Ms. Like Button and I chatted over tea earlier in the day while the Holy poured. I laid the cards on the table as … Continue reading
Posted in What the Heart Knows
Tagged blogging, creative writing, distraction, humor, like button, likes, New York City, Reader, readers, story, WordPress
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Lake Superior Creature Fairy Tale
In the old days, older than the oldest days, long before you drew your first ragged breath, long before your grandmother’s grandmother’s grandmother drew her first ragged and tentative breath–that’s when this story begins. In the bottom of Lake Superior … Continue reading
Posted in April, 2019
Tagged creature, daemon, fairy tale, fish, ice, inspiration, Lake Superior, myth, psychology, spring, story, thoughts, writing
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What really happened at the waterfalls…
Good morning, readers, friends, family, stumblers-upon-this-blog! I just posted the above photo on Facebook with an itty bitty explanation: Magical hike to the Canyon Falls yesterday. Met up with friends we hadn’t seen in a long time. Other hikers met up … Continue reading
Posted in April 2018
Tagged aphantasia, Canyon Falls, face blindness, humor, life, memory, Ortons, story, Upper Peninsula
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The mystery of the loud thuds
Yesterday, in between listening to Christmas carols and making a pomegranate kale salad, I heard a loud thud. What in the world could it be? First thought: The mail carrier is delivering presents from Portland, Oregon, or Edgewater, New Jersey! … Continue reading
Posted in December 2017
Tagged humor, imagination, mystery, snow, story, thoughts, thudding
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Just another Polar Vortex in Michigan’s UP
Good chilly blanket-wrapped morning! I hope you’re keeping warm, readers. Let’s pour a cup of coffee–or would you like tea?–or hot cocoa?–and chat for a spell. So many everyday conversations begin and end with weather these days. Our thermometer shivers … Continue reading
Posted in January 2014
Tagged cold, deep freeze, life, polar vortex, snow, snowmobiles, story, Upper Peninsula, winter
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Throw back your neck and howl
We really must quit meeting like this. We must quit telling stories blessed freezing winter day after winter day. But why not tell stories? The local Anishinabe huddled around campfires in wigwams all winter spinning yarns of Wenabozhoo and the … Continue reading
Posted in December 2013
Tagged Anishinabe, forest, Native American, Solstice, story, woods, writing
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Hullabaloo
Such a hullabaloo in the Northern forest! Spring Seed Boy fell in love with young Snow Maiden. Oh, it’s forbidden, don’t you know! The Winter Queen, in her fury, locked Spring Seed Boy in a shed behind the six-foot snow bank. … Continue reading
Posted in April 2013
Tagged blizzard, change, fable, life, nature, photography, spring, story, weekly photo challenge, winter, writing
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