The kittens have gotten rather large, round and mobile over the last couple of weeks. We still have them penned up in our bedroom closet, seeing as how we don’t know what they would do wandering around a room. One time years ago when we raised kittens, before we had children, we made the mistake […]
On one hand, visiting my parents’ lakefront home is a very peaceful experience. A quiet dock hugging a modest view of one end of Singletary Lake is a balm for any ailment. Even more soothing is watching my children blow bubbles, their little rainbow-mirrored perfect spheres floating off and away like so many worries.
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We were out late last night—for a school night—visiting friends with a new ten-day-old baby named Owen. He’s real cute and it was fun to hold a newborn for a while. The new mom and dad actually looked peaceful and somewhat well-rested. My kids played very happily while we visited. But this morning when it […]
Soft light filled a large, open home furnished in white and beige, where the sounds of people milling through the house were softened and drifted away like gentle mist. Two long, beige-carpeted flights of stairs led to open-designed loft areas where tall, puffy, perfectly-made beds awaited. Even though it was day, and I knew that […]
All school year long I have been walking or driving our neighbor kindergartner to school and back. On days when I was sick, my husband took care of it. On days when my kids were sick and weren’t going to school, we still made an effort to remember our friend across the street. Even on […]
The weekly after-school group I’ve been hosting is coming to an end next week. It’s been a good run of activities this spring, after a wacky and wobbly experimental fall session. Toward the end of this session, we leading adults got together to talk about ideas for how we could finish on an upswing and […]
I’m sweatin’. It kinda turned from a cold, dreary, weird long-lasting non-spring into a sultry, crazy, muggy, non-stop sunny summery situation here.
That’s all I really have to say because I’m just sweatin’ too much to say anything further.
I was climbing a monument, an ancient sacrificial altar made of painted crumbling stone and smooth concrete. The paint was red and black and chipped away under my sweaty palms. I had to reach the top. As I climbed near the top, sweaty and panting, I discovered two huge, oversized bullhorns, situated like giant handlebars, […]
I have to confess, I am a home birther. When a new friend invited me to be present at her child’s high-risk birth, I politely said I’d see if I could be there depending on the timing—after all, I have three kids of my own. None of them were born in a hospital. Nor did […]
Here are some of the kittens at about two days old. They are now a week old and have tripled in size, but the mama cat moved them all to the recesses of the closet because she got annoyed with us (or so I imagine) for removing the laundry basket so frequently to gawk, cuddle […]