Better Childhood
Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Children & Parenting Personal Growth Romance & Relationships
It’s only fair when I yell at you, she said to me once. You had a better childhood.
Month: December 2013
Best of Times
Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Family & Relatives Friends & Neighbors Inspirational Personal Growth
I’d like to leave you with something valuable, she said. You probably already have, I said, but we take most of our lives to remember that, even in the best of times
Best Choice
Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Children & Parenting Family & Relatives
If I have to choose, my son said, I’ll take them all. That’s no choice, I said. Obviously, he said, you’ve forgotten how choice works.
Benign Neglect
Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Peace & Justice
If I ran the world, he told me, I’d pretty much leave it alone & spend my time reading & I’d advise other people to do the same. Which is why I’ll probably never run the world, he said.
Belly of the Pig
Every day he stood in front of the Bank of America. You’re trapped in the belly of a big pink pig, he said. We ignored him. We had work to do.
Belly Dancer
Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Children & Parenting Family & Relatives
The singing on her belly dance records reminded her of the cattle auctions she used to go to with her grandfather & she would sing along softly, fourfiftyfourfiftyfour seventyfivegorgeous gorgeousgorgeous myohmy, she would say & then she would raise her hands above her head & ripple her body like trees in the wind.
Believing Tall
Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Humor & Whimsy
I’ve always thought I was taller than I looked, she said, but that belief is not without difficulties.
Believing My Father
Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Children & Parenting Family & Relatives
I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.
Belief
Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Children & Parenting
Can you prove any of the stuff you believe in? my son asked me & when I said that’s not how belief works, he nodded & said that’s what he thought but he was just checking to make sure he hadn’t missed a key point.
Being There
Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Inspirational Personal Growth
sending postcards to himself saying ‘Wish you were here’ so when he gets back home he doesn’t forget