“did you have a good time at the movies?”
said the boy first thing in the morning.
June 16, 2013 · Leave a comment
full day
birthday gathering. play date. school band performance. art fair. professional ice hockey. local teenage rock band concert. carnival. sleepover. today’s an absurdly unusual portrait of this homebody family.
June 8, 2013 · Leave a comment
the twelve-year-old plays the trumpet
“why did she choose the trumpet?” people often ask, showing surprise.
June 7, 2013 · Leave a comment
measure
Between sage and rose, a delicate freckled green half-shell lay, remnant perhaps of a family, long gone, of western scrub jays. Up there survives, I said to the children, look, … Continue reading
June 6, 2013 · Leave a comment
fictional worlds are other universes
“what if fictional worlds are actually other universes that have entered into writers’ minds?” said the twelve-year-old.
June 2, 2013 · Leave a comment
"papa," the children call me: musings, vignettes, occasional poems 