When I walked in to fetch a drink, I mumbled something, and she said, “What?” “I was talking to the dog,” I replied. As I walked out to once again enjoy the night, I thought I heard something and said, “What?” “I was talking to the cat,” she said.
I’m not afraid of flying, but I always have worst-case-scenario thoughts at some point during the flight. If everything goes fine, which it always has, my fellow passengers in that cramped cabin and I will go our separate ways after baggage claim. But if things go wrong, we’ll become brothers and sisters for all time.
Whenever I smell honeysuckle, I think of one place and one person. I wonder if that will ever change? morrisstories.com
There was a time when it could take days, weeks or months before someone found out about a tragedy in a neighboring state, much less one several states away. Readers relied on editors, the gatekeepers who decided if the horrific news had any value to their readers. Not too long ago, tragic things could happen …
The nostalgia we have for yesterday will someday be for today. morrisstories.com
Everything and everyone we experience will be lost to us. I could knock on the door and might be able to persuade the current owners to let me into my grandparents’ house, but it wouldn’t be the house I remember. In every way that matters, that house is gone. morrisstories.com
I’ve done it. I cracked four eggs with one hand. Not a single yolk broke. Not a single shell fell. With my years-long odyssey complete, I celebrated by washing my hands.
During a nice meal out, I tried not to look over at the kids who kept crying and fussing. There were two little ones — “new models,” I call them — who competed to make the most noise possible. I don’t mean to complain because my wife and I went through those days with our …
My dog has no idea what’s happening in Texas or Ukraine. When she stretches out on the floor, she really stretches out. She’s so self indulgent.
Even when I was disconnected from electronic media, I wasn’t completely free because I had to be home when the streetlights came on.
