The pink and white striped box was the perfect package for a much-wanted surprise for our daughter’s twelfth birthday. When the box began to ring in the middle of our dinner celebration, Chickie grabbed it, opened it, and morphed before our eyes into Tweenage-Girl-Who-Just-Got-a-Cell-Phone. She screamed, she laughed, she made “I’m calling from my new […]
He came to her in a dream. A young woman of an age to be thinking of such things dreamt of a man, black-headed and blue-eyed. Martha dreamt that she would marry this man and together they would make a living with little more than the cotton sacks she had been filling since she was […]
I don’t cry. Some people cry easily, I don’t and never have. My usual way of handling a sad story or bad news or stress is to take it in and keep it in until I get some kind of raging headache. That was before. These days, I cry. Tears leak out of the corners […]
My son participated in a mock election at his school last week. I didn’t even know about it until another mom told me the calamity that ensued when their son revealed who he had voted for and was devastated to find that he picked the wrong guy, meaning the guy his parents weren’t voting for. […]
I wish I were a ghost for a while. If I were, I wouldn’t bother with the clanking chains bit. I’d figure that I had carried enough baggage around during my regular life. Instead, I would just relax and enjoy my newfound lightness of being. I wouldn’t waste any time moaning or groaning either, or […]
