by Charlene Adams | Sep 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
She looked…well, perhaps a little undone, in the opinion of most. Her hair tousled and haphazardly hand-smoothed away from her thin face. No theme or reasoning just a take-it-or-leave-it style. Loose-fitting, loud patterned pants struggled with the paired...
by Charlene Adams | Jun 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
What’s that – do I have a favorite child? Well sure! Depending on the day, deed or just because, I convince each one of my four children, in a cross-your-heart-don’t-tell-the others sort of way, that he or she is forever my favorite. Short lived and worth...
by Charlene Adams | Jun 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dissonance. Incongruity. A controversy in what sounds right or makes sense. Two ordinaries, totally normal by themselves, but when paired together, well, gets your attention. A lack of acceptable harmony between notes. Peanut butter and pickles. A...
by Charlene Adams | May 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
The labored breathing wrestled with the pounding of the runner’s feet against the poor man’s pavement. (At least that’s what the county road worker called it when we questioned why they were masticating our paved road and layering it with tar and rock) The...
by Charlene Adams | May 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
The incessant tick, tick, tick of the timer wavered in between folly and just plain panic. I mean, it’s challenging enough just to pinch-ahold of those little critters. Okay, not really critters, more like twenty-five, three-dimensional, plastic molded,...
by Charlene Adams | Apr 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Breathe the sweet scents of the season. A blossoming invitation to hope. New life sneaking a peek as the sun burns with delight and begs for company. The slumbering Daffodils and Texas Blue Bonnets emerge from their damp, dark hiding places ready to come...
