Teens by Amber Yates
I was told when I first had a daughter that as soon as she turned 13 she would turn on me and be the most difficult person to deal with. She would hate me and everything I have ever said. I have watched...
Ragamuffin Romeo In Search Of Friendly Female Feline For LTR by Da Goddess
Do you remember the part of “The Wizard of Oz” when Dorothy meets the Cowardly Lion? That’s how I felt for a moment a couple of months ago. My son and I had traveled up to the hills...
17:25 Christmas Eve, Yurakucho by Kristen McQuillin
That’s me, alone on the end of the platform there. My usual bad timing. Both trains have shut their doors and are pulling away. I’m stranded for 3 minutes until the next train arrives–an...
Jumping for Joy! by Lee
Well what do I say? I am not much of a writer but I am somebody who loves take, and to look at photos. I took this photo of my children playing under the sprinkler in the front yard. It was originally...
Renewal by Da Goddess
The starkness of Winter is like sleep or death and the brilliance of Spring is the reminder of birth and renewal.
It’s easy to become weighted down by the grayness that surrounds you during Winter....
The Arcade by John Setzler
As a child, Saturday mornings were a special time for me. My father was a self employed owner/operator of a small printing company in the downtown area of my community. Shortly after sunrise every Saturday...
Room of Trees by David White
A year ago I lived in a house with four other university students. To get to class each day, you could walk 20 minutes through pleasant middle class neighbourhood streets, or you could take a usually...
Under the bridge by Cindy Robbins
Although river and highway intersect here, they seldom bother each other. The highway is the busiest in this area but sitting in the shade under the bridge with the river calmly moving, it feels as though...
Yet she smiles by Jason Wall
I don’t know her name. She lives in the city of Soroti in Uganda. Her happy face seems out of place in a country so poor. She is probably no older than five or six, and in a country where wives...
A wedding from the past by David Sheriton
There’s a well known question used by magazines in interviews and sometimes in dinner party games that goes, “if there was a fire at your home what is the one item you would have to save”. It’s...