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What I See Outside My Window

July 22, 2020July 21, 2020by ashleyfenkerLeave a Comment on What I See Outside My Window
What I See Outside My Window

A man in a red shirt drives a blue tractor through our neighboring green field. Our black-and-white cat sleeps under my chair, while the gray-spotted cat’s busy hunting a cardinal. An orange popsicle to cut through the thick July heat. If I look hard enough, I see more than the black that paints all of [...]

beauty, darkness, life, waiting

The old man reading the newspaper.

December 3, 2016March 27, 2018by ashleyfenker2 Comments on The old man reading the newspaper.
The old man reading the newspaper.

  I met an old man in the bookstore the other day. (I use the word "met" very loosely.) When I looked up from my laptop on the table at the cafe, giving my reading eyes a break to glaze over the aisles of books and the rows of bookshelves that line up like heaven, that's when [...]


 

Hi! I’m Ashley. I take my coffee black and my sprinkles rainbow. I love creativity, messy stories, and falling in love with ordinary moments of life. Born to be a storyteller.
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“I can give you something productive to paint,” my husband says. “Like the walls of our house.” I’m showing him my new hobbies: coloring and painting. I’m also reviewing the fact that I spent about $40 on colored pencils, a coloring book, composition notebooks, and a watercolor paint set.

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