Image credit: Photo by Express Monorail on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons In the dream, I was driving on a highway laid out like silver thread between my home and the nearest big city. My husband was seated next to me, smiling, and I could feel the kids safely at home, laughing with their babysitter. [...]
Posts under ‘death’
In Memory of Henry Louis Granju
Image credit: Photo by kevincole on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Sometimes I picture those who are in the grips of addiction as falling down into a chasm so hopelessly dark that eventually no memory of light remains and so endlessly deep that it can take years of hurtling down, scrapping the rough walls and [...]
Live Light, Love Strong
Image credit: Photo by crowbert on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons On my wrist is a bright yellow rubber bracelet with LIVESTRONG imprinted on it. I plucked it from a small wicker basket on a table next to a guest book at a memorial service where one of the loved ones spoke about the task [...]
The Fall of a Sparrow
Image credit: Photo by Ashley Dinges on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "I don't want to get up and I don't want to go to school!" my daughter Janie yelled when she heard me chime "Time to get up!" this morning. ("Well, maybe tonight you will go to sleep on time so you won't be [...]
Farewell Farrah Haikus
Image credit: Photo by Roadsidepictures on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I strut down the hall, pull a mint green plastic comb from my jeans pocket. Comb whips through hair and... I fail (completely!) to look like Farrah Fawcett. More Haiku Friday haikus can be found at A Mommy Story.
The Man in the Mirror
I roll my eyes as a cluster of neon clad girls buzz, "The way the sidewalk lights up as he walks is so cool! I love that song." Michael Jackson and that stupid Billie Jean video. Cool? Whatever. He's so overrated. I mean, if you wanted to talk about enduring cool, who could really compete [...]
My Kids Deal with Death
Image credit: Photo by two stout monks on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My daughter, Janie, found the body. Our pet* had been missing for a while, so at first she shouted to me excitedly. She found him! But when I ran to her, it was clear that he was already gone. She looked from [...]
The Wisdom to Know the Difference
Image credit: Photo by Ron Layters on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A month or so ago, I did something I dread and despise: I took a trip on an airplane. When I fly, the joy is entirely in the destination and not at all in the journey. The flight fills me with terror: terror [...]
Control Freaking
Image credit: Photo by h4cks on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I've got plans for tomorrow that are going to keep me away from the computer, and I knew I wanted to squeeze in one last blog post today. So first thing in the morning I began the day right: by panicking because I wasn't [...]
Feeding the Emptiness
Image credit: Photo by Djuliet on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Many years ago, before we had children, my husband bought me a small fish tank for my birthday. At the time, I wanted a car. I didn't really think he could buy a car, but I was relying on a very iffy public transit [...]
