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| Blog Name: |
Fox & Maus |
| Url: |
http://foxandmaus.wordpress.com |
| Language: |
English |
| Topics: |
family, travel, history |
| Description: |
Stories about the things that make life interesting. Always positive, never complaining. Something good to read when you have five minutes to spare in your day. |
| Popularity: |
1 Followers |
Looking Up.
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Under Short Stack’s bed sit his large collection of earth moving equipment, gathering dust. Next to the forgotten dump trucks, excavators and front loaders are his personal, private sea going fleet... |
For His Eighteenth Birthday – 5/16/05
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Monday Poem, A Year and a DayFor His Eighteenth Birthday – 5/16/05The barrel is warmed by my hand’s reverent grip,rounded edges looking improbably soft.Its walnut stock, marred here and there,each ... |
Sun Dreaming – 4/11/05
| Monday Poem, A Year and a DaySun Dreaming – 04/11/05The winter has been long and I turn my heart towards travel.Soft banks of snow have been transformed by the late winter rainsand now bear none of... |
Learning to Faceplant with Grace, Part III
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A trick of the light, a moment of distraction, what ever it was, I did something wrong.In a heart stopping, bug-eyed, “Oh CRAP” moment, I was cutting the wrong way; not down to the next flag, but i... |
Learning to Faceplant with Grace, Part II
| The things that pushed me into signing up for Ski Team were few, but persuasive. Naturally, the first was the social pressure from my classmates. I’ve always been more than a bit of an outsider whe... |
Learning to Faceplant with Grace, Part I
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As the snow falls in quiet, blanketing quantity on the already buried yard and roof, Action Girl and I scurry around in the kitchen in an effort to get food on the table for the kids before blood s... |
3/7/05 – The Old Trott Cemetery
| Monday Poem – A Year and a DayThe Old Trott Cemetery – 3/7/05The stones of the old plot are deep in winter’s snow.Who lies beneath is a mystery though.They have lived their lives.They have seen goo... |
Traveling Together
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“Hi Mom. Yes, I just got on board a few minutes ago… Oop, looks like were starting to move. Yah, I’m excited to go too but I’m missing the kids already.” I was trying to keep my voice down as I spo... |
Inanity Verbatim
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“He seems to have a problem with remembering and memorizing.”These are the words that made my parents twitch and fight to stifle an explosion of, “Are you joking?!?”I was not, to put it delicately,... |
3/3/05 – Stories
| Monday Poem, A Year and a DayStories – 3/3/05There is an old man out on the island with me.You don’t see him in his yard much anymore, though he once was out all the time.He’s mostly deaf, though h... |
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