I carefully rode off the driveway onto the hilly slope of our neighborhood street waving to everyone and their barking dogs. Wondering why I decided to ride these hills on a bike when I don't walk them. It is quite a feat to navigate a bike when I don't normally ride at all. Nor have…

coffee toasting before taking our first bite out of a buttery stack of Klondike chocolate chip pancakes topped with a bourbon - aged syrup for breakfast at home on his day off at our favorite table for two . . .instead of baking up a batch of chocolate chip cookies for his week's lunch desserts…

the simplest of pleasures this morning satisfy my soul that of baby birdsong in a chirpy hungered state heard from one of the trees close by as I listened from the window when in the next breath I hear only the quiet of the meadow several little creatures that were once full of chirpy cries…