Monthly Archives: January 2014

Stories Nestled in Stories

Flanked by the bookstore
Over coffee we swapped
Our holiday tales

Dining Room Poker Ball

The dishes are cleared
Bring on the makeshift ping pong
With its made-up rules

Personalities Differ

Like public speaking?
I listened, shocked yet quiet
It’s not my nature

Orange Belt Test

Some kids ran crazy
Ours focused, stepped through the moves
Then snap went the boards

Back to Normal

After Christmas break
And two days too cold for school
Bus door ends our lull

Inside Looking Out

Twenty three below
We scrape window frost to watch
Our neighbor bike by

The Weather Wins Again

The Polar Vortex
With it’s eerie name kept kids
Out of school again

Christmas Clean Up

Needles clutched the tree
Until touched then they tumbled
The tree said all done

Lunch before Lockdown

We bundled, walked, lunched
Knowing the cold would trap us
Until it’s rage scrams

Best Laid Plans…

Game night was shaky
By chance the neighbors popped in
And thwarted a fight