“New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery – Boscawen NH” by Rusty Clark ~ 100K Photos, CC BY 2.0 On September 20th I drove with my mom, grandmother and grandfather 40 minutes away to the New Hampshire Veterans Cemetery. It was mostly a silent ride. My grandfather...
Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A hard November, again on a Tuesday,where office workers pass out holiday wish lists,(chain restaurant gift cards are good presents,and often requested as a small prize for a weekdone well). Traffic hums and...
Photo: Aubrey Case “Order three-zero, you’re my hero!” The quirky words beckon me forward, and I mutter a quick thanks as I snag the brown paper bag from the counter. I am four, ten, seventeen, twenty years old eating my favorite food. There are neon signs and...
Photo: November Masinelli, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Once known for the colors of its cliffs,red sandstone contrasted with canyons of green trees, people photographtheir auras there now. I should have asked you to take a photograph with me,should have told...
Photo: redjar, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons She keeps failing to twirl a baton. She knows I’m watching her. She doesn’t look embarrassed. Her apparent composure confounds me. Some move through their lives at ease. She looks about five years old. She doesn’t...
They told me you were extinct in the visitors center a little plaque with your name outside we gather under the overhang as you dole out oil lamps they say it was the way you flocked that made you so easy to hunt, I’d say it’s your nail polish in the middle of nowhere...
