David Anderson

As love stories go, what matters most is not so much how the two met but that they became inseparable. It could have been that first sight of the other across a crowded room and the ensuing bashful invitation to go out somewhere, anywhere, but then, should a romance commence, from henceforth and forever, together […]

She opened the email from the school district to read the notice that her order for his high school graduation cap and gown had been confirmed. It wasn’t even Christmas, not even Thanksgiving, let alone June, a whole eight months off. A long ways off. And just like that tears welled up in her eyes […]

She calls them mountains; he calls them hills. She is “five-foot-and-a-bit” and he is a ‘sight’ taller necessitating she stand on an overturned bucket. She’s been all over the country; he doesn’t know where Tennessee is, let alone how to spell it. Hence the puzzle she sent which his granddaughter put together while he watched […]

I almost stepped on them. Exiting my truck, having parked at the curb, I gathered up my computer, checked again to be sure my keys were in my pocket, I locked up and turned to head toward the coffee shop across the street. But right there, at my feet, in the grass median between the […]

She watched him from afar. From a long, long way away, day after day, week after week, month after month, she watched him. She watched him struggle up the mountains. Mile after often tortuous mile as he wandered, she wondered at his purpose. She saw the pain in his eyes. She saw him often stop, […]

Thousands upon thousands of them against a blue-black sky, overwhelming for sheer numbers, are the stars. And among them, the first to appear, as the sun is the grand herald announcing a new day, is the moon, it’s soft glow like a pillow cushioning the night. And all the way across the country, while on […]

As many of my readers know by now, I have announced that I have been led by God I believe to someone in my life who has come to mean so very much to me. All my life – and there are so many, many instances of such – God has orchestrated from heaven the […]

What had begun as a crystal clear early morning with stars twinkling in the still dark sky, and as red and white bow lights flashed on the other rowing shells as they moved silently nearby on the dark surface of the water, so very quickly and with what seemed like little warning, the morning dissolved […]

I saw him coming down the inner hallway, passing door after office door as he drew nearer. Pretty hard not to notice. To my recollection no one had brought flowers – let alone such a huge bouquet of daisies – to our medical clinic before. Wondering at the occasion, smiling as the fellow approached, I […]