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 the Ark, and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

How do I understand what you are telling me about your experience? What do you see when looking at the same thing I am looking at? Our minds speak a language that is uniquely ours. To share what’s in your world takes work, patience, and respect. And sometimes, even...

The past seems to have disappeared forever. As each day passes, the picture of Medina gets blurrier. The Ark’s animals invent stories of what life was like in Medina. They question Noah’s wisdom and judgment. “Can we count on Noah as our leader?” That question is no...

Of course, it didn’t nor could it happen all at once. Birds don’t wake up with Alzheimer’s disease.  It creeps up on them slowly; in little dabs will do you, incubated nonsense codes, spin juices in the head that scramble the good codes and replace them with random...

Leopold Café is always crowded. Their Danish and coffee are superb. The service is awful.Bill was at a table sipping his second cup of cappuccino and munching on a huge piece of coffee cake. Two weeks ago, he sat at this very same table. Back then, his misery was all...

I left Global Financial Inc. early today. Couldn’t take it. At the moment I am sitting at Sam’s café waiting for Claire. Some jittery clients are screaming at me. I may be a financial analyst but not a magician. Today the ink was black and smelled like fresh tar on a...