Year two with twins is the year of guerilla warfare, the year in which they form a tiny two-man militia bent on breeding destruction and disorder. My one-and-a-half year-old boys are climbers and their little army is forever advancing toward higher ground. ...
Christmas morning 2010, the Corvette we found for $25 on Craigslist. I turned to see my two and four year old children driving their little yellow Corvette through our small, cramped living room. I was standing in the doorway between rooms interviewing a...
She told him, “When I was in college I read a folktale about a father pursuing a son who’d run far away, from one world to the next. The father called to him, ‘Please come back!’ But his son looked across the great gulf between them and shouted...
“Come unto me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.” – God I came into the retreat like our old cat Samson used to come into our house after a string of nights out on the town. Samson would just disappear and...
There’s a level of desperation around our house these days. Winter has set in and we’re cramped and snotty, sneezing and feverish. We’re making daily trips to the store for things we forgot and debating who should go to the Dr. next as we shuffle...
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