What a beautiful family. Handsome, handsome son. He is so much taller than you. Wait a few years. He'll be taller. My son towers over me. I look so tiny next to him. It's wonderful. There is joy in those

Thanks for seeing so much in my story, dear @samsmith1971 and for your kind words about me. The story was there before I wrote it :) It just had to come out, and I wanted to do it right. I'm very glad

Hello my friend, and Happy New Year! I thought of this story almost as soon as I read @valued-customer's comment. This thing just poured out of me and then of course I spent hours changing this word and

Thank you for reading and appreciating my story. This one almost wrote itself, although it did take a lot of editing to make clear what I wanted to say. May you have a wonderful 2026, @anmolsingh01

Dear Lovely Inkwell Community, I had the urge to write and someone on Hive gave me an idea. I wrote this in response to fiction prompt #41, Gift, but I see that the story very easily fits in today's

I don't knit, but I always thought of it as a kind of meditation. You express it beautifully. You are going to think this is a pedestrian comparison, but I used to feel that way about ironing. It was my

Apparently, I agree with you. Thanks for stopping by, and Happy New Year.

Thank you, @phage93 and @curangel for your acknowledgement and support!

Hello @litguru I think the lights are expressions of creativity. Maybe wasteful, but everything we do wastes resources in one way or another. This activity has a great dividend: happiness :) Actually,

Thank you, @discovery-it! Your support is much appreciated.

I think we know how I feel about crowds. There are a few things my husband and I have in common that helped us get through the last 52 years. We both love animals and we both avoid crowds. If there is

So very happy to see you here, @lemouth! A Christmas gift. I'm happy to hear you are well, and not surprised you give so much time to your students. I've always believed that burnout in certain

My husband and I are not free of the banks, I'm afraid, but at our age we are free of debt. Wouldn't that be a horror, facing the end with debt? Because I grew up poor--and also because I am a student

was a branch that blew off in a storm, and my tree has one ornament on it Great image--could be a good prompt for a story. Certainly original :) I remember in years past, when I was a child, the accoutrements

How do we avoid the banks? My paternal grandfather did. Everything (large farm, many properties) paid for in cash. When he died, though, it was rumored that a family member looted his safe at home. Of

Thank you very much, @phage93!

I don't know about the whales...I don't think about the issue much. I find it's best to just stay in my lane and do my thing. Part of my thing includes this: If we only make money and do not do good, I

Oh no!!! Impossible. Wonderful, wonderful story. Poor old gent. I wonder how long it took him to get over the embarrassment. Best story I've heard in a long time.

I have no idea if it's true. This was mostly a gimmick gift. I hope it works. We are as likely to misplace it as use it :)) Finding pet hairs when we are out (particularly at a doctor's office) kind of

anyone who wore black was covered with cat hair. What a great image !! One present I gave my husband this year was a 'static' pet hair remover. We find ourselves when we have left the house with pet hairs