Jan 1, 2026 | Life lived stories, Stories
Tragedy In the midst of the horrors of war our attention can be captured by trivia and absurdities. (Leopold Barth) The farmer Kyrylo Mintz’s son has been lost in battle. He is not coming home. He stands in the middle of his garden just outside the town of Bila...
Dec 28, 2025 | Noah Saga Stories, Stories
Characters on Noah’s Ark The Noah Saga is inspired by the story of Noah’s Ark as described in the bible which includes events leading up to the building of the Ark, the great flood, the rescue of pairs of all of the earth’s animals, life on...
Dec 27, 2025 | Children's stories, Stories
Conversations with a horse My name is Egon and I have always been a bit spacy spending more time in my mind than in the real world. Play, storytelling, and other mind games, help me escape from a world that I have learned is dangerous. I know that is true and so does...
Dec 17, 2025 | Children's stories, Stories
Children learn to tip toe around their world Children learn to tip toe around their world Kids may know less than adults but their minds make use of what they know often as well as adults. Just watch kids cautiously move about a dangerous world and you will see what I...
Dec 16, 2025 | Children's stories, Stories
Clutches A half dozen kids—all first graders—regularly gathered to play in a small green triangular patch in our Mt. Washington neighborhood. In just a few days, we will start the new school year at Mt. Washington Elementary, about a quarter mile away. We planned to...
Nov 22, 2025 | Noah Saga Stories, Stories
It is Wednesday night and dinner is done. Some of the animals have left the dining room, stuffed. Others stayed behind to hear yet another tale of minds at work. They would have preferred an evening of music and dancing but….oh well as the Wobbly Fern Duck pointed...
