The Empty House
The living room of my childhood home in New Albany, Indiana. 1725 Grantline Road. I always wanted to slide down the stairs but the post at the bottom would surely […]
The living room of my childhood home in New Albany, Indiana. 1725 Grantline Road. I always wanted to slide down the stairs but the post at the bottom would surely […]
I loved my adoptive mother but I didn’t always agree with her. I’m glad she taught me to stand up to bullies and defend myself. But I remember her instructing […]
This is my childhood home in New Albany, Indiana. In the summertime the hot sun would blaze behind the house where I would sit on concrete steps and squint into […]
Henrietta Lukemeyer was an elderly lady who lived down the hill from my childhood home in Indiana. She rarely stopped by to say hello to my mom, but when she […]
When I was a child, my adoptive father would always joke with me, telling me that he and my adoptive mom picked me out from a room of babies. “I […]
Sometimes a seemingly insignificant event in one’s life may later turn out to change that person forever. That person was me. When I was a teenager I took my girlfriend […]
At an early age, my adoptive mother taught me to be compassionate, kind, and to respect every human being. She instructed me to be slow to anger, to laugh at […]
I accidentally projected a tremendous belch at the lunch table at Grace Lutheran Elementary in New Albany. Mrs. Moore demanded to know from where the origin of the discharge came. […]
1. Things always get worse before they get better. 2. It always takes more time getting there than coming back home. 3. You cannot teach an old dog new tricks. […]
At times I believed I was the only boy living on Grantline Road, for my neighborhood roamed with females. Older girls with larger physiques eventually subdued me during any test […]
I was seven when I had my first lucid dream. Of course I didn’t know the official name, but I did sense “I know I am dreaming.” I was at […]
“Hello Matt! It is great to find you on Facebook,” I typed on my tablet. It was so nice to catch up with Matt. He had a great sense of […]
The old woman bumped her shopping cart head-on into moms. “Goodness, M.. I’m sorry,” the old woman grumbled. “Oh, that’s okay,” mom said apologetically with a big smile.” I guess […]
It was a plausible answer. The Great Ice Age swept over the earth and froze all the dinosaurs. I had no reason to doubt Mrs. Moore, my fourth grade teacher […]
“I’m gonna shoot ya, dad,” Trever said with a grin as Dad was relaxing in his favorite chair. “Trevor, put that darn thing down. You could put my eye out.” […]