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My young friend needed help with her garden. I can’t work my smartphone or my computer, but suddenly I was no longer a fogey, but an authentic Elder.
What is the charm of the average mud puddle to youngsters? It’s only dirt and water. Is it the sound of the splash?
In a cycle of homegrown food – seeding, growing, tending, harvesting – I came to understand a different version of the American dream.
I had to have one, just one, of my very own, found on my own. Beach time for me became Petoskey time, no exceptions.
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Vocabulary and cadences, phrasings and simple expressions shifted from canton to canton, even valley to valley.
I maintain that willful avoidance of difficult subjects is a successful emotional strategy, and I’m good at it.
I have limited myself to one egg cream per week, and how I long for Friday evening when I whip up heaven’s own soda.
The Grand Shaman always wanted to know what we had observed in the woods that week. It was time for nature reports.
My grown-up grandchildren's new toys consist of electronics. So I decided to pass along the little red-and-yellow toy car to someone else’s driveway.
My mom's approach at scoring golf makes me wonder if I can become more optimistic simply by acting that way.
How hard could the recipe be, right? Five ingredients, the most obvious of which is cabbage.
But to my 13-year-old companion, such maps are like rotary phones.
The trouble began when I decided we needed a few more chickens for our backyard flock.
His success crystallized my aspirations. If I could only be like Teddy, how sweet life would be.
