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Promise

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:23 PM in Children & Parenting Friends & Neighbors Inspirational
the water washed away everything but the chance to begin again so we came from cities & towns, from long golden fields & we stood side by side until we made a bridge to dry land, back to a place we have promised to hold safe for each other’s children, back to a place called … [Read More]

Opposition

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:20 PM in Children & Parenting
I just tell them to do things they already want to do, she said, & even then, it’s like pulling teeth.

Morning Person

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:20 PM in Children & Parenting
I wouldn’t mind being grownup, she told me, if I didn’t have to get up & be grumpy right away every morning.

Mixed Up

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:20 PM in Children & Parenting
Why do you tell the truth? my son asked & I thought about it for awhile & finally I said, Because human beings get mixed up easier than dogs & plants & fishes. What if you’re someone who doesn’t get mixed up? he said. Go ahead & lie, I said & then I hit him … [Read More]

Lemonade

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:20 PM in Children & Parenting
It’s a nickel a glass, he said, because I can’t charge that much since I ran out of sugar & I asked if he’d had many customers & he said not yet, but he sure hoped so because he didn’t want to have to drink the whole thing himself. It’s a refreshing change, he said, … [Read More]