My daughter and I are back to school shopping. We sweep through the big red-framed doors into Target, into the coolness and light and open space that smells like newness and popcorn mingled together. We stop for a cart and I take off long-striding into the...
What are you, crazy? Common sense should tell you to make every effort to avoid taking two babies to the Doctor by yourself. But, should your other two children fall ill, thus requiring quarantine and throwing a wrench in your carefully laid plans...
Our nine-month-old twins are sick and the batteries in the swing are dead. No one’s going to get any sleep at this rate, so I volunteer to run out for batteries. On the way I to the store I call a friend whose father was recently diagnosed with a deadly...
Walking out onto the dock, I feel it welling up around me. It’s not the first time I’ve felt it. It’s the last day of our summer vacation at the bay and I’m distracting the kids while my parents and husband load up all our gear. The big gate’s...
I’m continuing a series of short pieces on abundance (this is the fourth, you can find other posts in this series here: Scarcity and Abundance). * * * * * * After all of this, I come...
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