Author Archives: kathymiele28

“Ah, rats!” I cried as lost the game of Solitaire I’d been playing. I’d been sitting on the couch playing on my phone when my son Alex came into the room. “What are we doing for lunch?” he asked. “What?” I looked confused as I looked over at the clock. “Are you kidding me?” IContinue reading “ADDICTED”

“I’m not doing it!” I said shaking my head. “Nope. I’m not calling an antipasti a charcuterie board.” Still shaking my head. “Nope. Not happening.” Alex looked over at the advertisement I was holding, that had come in the mail, from a local farmers market I loved to shop at. Alex started to laugh. “IContinue reading “RENAMING”

“Oh, good they’re here.” My husband Steve said as he walked to the front door. “What’s going on?” I asked as I looked out my living room window early on a beautiful Saturday morning. A pick-up truck had just pulled up to our house towing a flatbed that had a backhoe chained down to it.Continue reading “FARMING”

My son Alex and I were in one of our favorite parks, taking an early morning walk, when he stopped and pointed to a slug inching its way across the blacktop path in front of us. “He’s got quite a slime trail going.” I said as I noticed about a foot long silver trail behindContinue reading “SLIMY SLUG”

“That’s it, I’m decorating for fall.” I said as I pulled the attic stairs down. My son Alex watched me climb up into the attic. “But it’s 80 degrees out.” “Doesn’t matter.” I said as I crawled over to the bins marked fall decorations. “The calendar says it’s fall so I’m going to decorate.” IContinue reading “FALL DECOR”

I walked into the house and dropped a giant bag, from a local department store, onto the chair by the front door. My husband Steven came into the room. “You went shopping after work?” He asked as he peeked into the top of the bag. “Yup.” I dropped my purse next to the bag. “IContinue reading “DRESS CODE”

“Here we go again.” I sighed as I paused the show I was watching, placed the remote on the coffee table and got up from the couch. My son Alex was walking by and heard me. “What’s wrong?” he asked. “Well, now that I’m back to school I notice that after dinner, as soon asContinue reading “ZOOMIES”

My husband Steven and I were sitting on the back deck eating our lunch, when I noticed a spotted lanternfly dart by. “Quick, give me your shoe!” I said to Steven as I stood up from the table, my hand held out, never taking my eyes off of the bug. “Sure.” Steven said as heContinue reading “ON A MISSION”

My arms were loaded with bags as I struggled to get my house key in the lock, when my husband Steven opened the door from the inside. “Let me help you with those.” He reached out to take some of the bags from me. I pulled them out of his reach. “You can’t!” I cried.Continue reading “NO PEEKING”

I was sitting in the middle of the laundry room floor with spiral notebooks all around me when my son Alex came into the room with his laundry hamper filled with dirty clothes. “Hey, what are you doing?” He asked as he went over to the washer and dryer and placed his hamper on topContinue reading “DEAR DIARY”