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...
Sep 6, 2025 | Children's stories, Stories
I visit a gym and have gotten to know many of my fellow old ‘gymnasts’. One of them is Werner who asked me to read this story he wrote and then corrected himself and said no, it’s a poem that he wrote. He handed me what he wrote and did so with lots of hesitation,...
Sep 6, 2025 | Children's stories, Stories
I never knew Charlie R when I was in elementary school. We sometimes played together in the neighborhood playground where I lived just outside of Columbus Ohio. When I was 12 we moved away and that is the last time I saw Charlie. Many years later I read a...
Jul 5, 2025 | Children's stories, Stories
These last months, Werner and I are spending much of our time reminiscing. Yesterday I asked, “Werner, do you remember Mr. Rosenthal? I can see him clearly, just as he appeared when he rang our doorbell. We must have been about 10.” We both knew why he appeared every...
