Check on the Graves

I found this little note while cleaning out my desk at work. I am pretty sure a child wrote it from the handwriting and content. I like the bit about tell me if the wind is still blowing. Thought it was a cute, yet disturbing, look into the secret lives of children.

Ironic

I came out of Office Depot one night recently to find this under my wiper blade. The weird part was that my car was the only one close to the store in the Office Depot parking lot at that hour. I guess I looked singularly clueless to someone who had been there and left. I … Continued

Vulnerability

I found this written on the inside of a table tent in the cafe part of a Whole Foods store located in a wealthy area of Dallas. The outside advertises “Omega-3s: Essential fats that do your heart good.”

Do You Like My Stuff?

Found on the ground or in a trashcan at the carwash. It made me happy. Does it make you happy? Yes or no?

Car Alarm

I found this on the ground in the parking lot of my apartments … the ending remarks are sweet.

Disco Fever

My son and I were walking through the parking lot of our local grocery store when I came across this little gem. The Saturday Night Fever theme song burst out of my mouth when I picked it up. It’s nice to see that the seventies are alive and well (and misspelled).

Baby I’m Sorry

Not to be confused with “Baby, hey I’m sorry…”

Halloween 1981

When you live in a neighborhood that is always under construction, you find that people will use the construction dumpsters for their own stuff. I found this in a box of photos along with all sorts of personal stuff. Most of it looks as if it was dumped after cleaning out the attic.

Kick It

Found on the cement outside a Starbucks.

You Can Fly

Discovered on the lawn of the Texas Memorial Museum in fall 2001, while leaving work. At first I thought it an excited inference concerning select evolutionary adaptations of the Texas Pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus, inside the museum. Or maybe an enthusiastic decision on the burning supper issue: pizza vs. hot wings. But it’s so whimsical that it … Continued