52 Week Writing Challenge

52 weeks. 52 Stories.

At the beginning of 2017 I joined The Writing Cooperative’s 52-Week Writing Challenge with my commitment to write one story per week. I decided to make healing the loose theme running through the work.

Week One

Did America Invent Something Even Better than Democracy?

Sick Day.

My big toe is sore, which makes it official. I now hurt from one end to the other.

Ghost Pizza.

I’ve reached the point in life when I’m no longer likely to climb a mountain or win a marathon, and even riding fast motorcycles starts…

Running, thankfully.

Thanksgiving morning. 23 degrees Fahrenheit. We line up in the starting corral, more than seven thousand of us. Shafts of…

Martin and Francis.

Lutherans are not given to noisy celebration, so you might have missed this. The Lutheran Reformation turned 500 years old…

Being Two at the Zoo.

I was brought to the zoo by my grandson the other day.

Is It Time to Rename My Mountain?

If you have good hiking boots, a compass and some endurance you can visit Clay Mountain. There are…

Trump vs. Toddler.

You forget how astonishingly aware of the world a toddler can be. At least I do. It’s been years since my own kids were that…

The Long War to Save Healthcare.

It looks like the Republican Party’s war on the nation’s health is back on, and with a vengeance. Why…