Author Archives: Ben Wilder
A Prayer for Today
Lord, Please make me into the husband you want me to be one day. Help me become the dad I want to be one day. But for now, let me be the best brother, son, and uncle I can be because that’s who I am today.
Blueberries
They say blueberries are good for your memory. So lately, I’ve been eating a lot of blueberries. Except on Wednesdays because, y’know, there are some things I want to forget. -Out of the Wilderness
Orelectic Green
Orelectic. A word that made so much sense in my dream. I was in a restaurant. I was leaving when the hostess asked me for a noun. I thought, “Denim overalls. Perfect.” The Mad Libs sentence finished with ‘orelectic green.’ I remember thinking that it’s a color I’d never heard of but sounds like aContinue reading “Orelectic Green”
In My Dream, All I Wear are Green Overalls.
I was leaving a restaurant when the hostess asked if I could give her a noun, Mad Libs style. So I wrote in “denim overalls.” The final sentence: In my dream, all I wear are denim overalls in orelectic green. She was going to read the sentence to the entire restaurant. The bad news: I’ll never know ifContinue reading “In My Dream, All I Wear are Green Overalls.”