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Losing Battle

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:20 PM in Children & Parenting Peace & Justice Personal Growth
I mainly like life to be peaceful with a few loud noises thrown in to remind me to be grateful for the quiet I have, he said. How is it going so far? I said & he shrugged & said he had children & that was enough for me to buy him a beer.

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]

Kid Games

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Children & Parenting Travel & Moving
One time I was standing on a corner in Chicago & a man stopped his car & asked for directions to a place I knew & I said that’s too easy, ask me something harder & he yelled & said he wasn’t playing games kid & then he drove off & I think about him … [Read More]

Invention

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Children & Parenting New Baby
I always wanted to invent something that would move around & make funny noises & would change the world as we know it & I forgot all about that until we had kids & now I see I came pretty close.

Invisible

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Children & Parenting
What are you doing? I said. I’m invisible, he said, Do I have to spell everything out for you all the time? & since he was invisible, I decided I could ignore that.

Hopping

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Children & Parenting Dreams Sports & Fitness
I had a dream & I heard music & there were children standing around, but no one was dancing. I asked a little girl, why not? & she said they didn’t know how, or maybe they used to but they forgot & so I started to hop up & down & the children asked me, … [Read More]

Heaven II

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Death Spiritual
She said you know what heaven is like? & I said I wasn’t sure & she laughed & said grown-ups didn’t know much at all about important stuff & I said I had to agree with her even though I was one of them myself.

Halloween

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:19 PM in Children & Parenting Friends & Neighbors Halloween
I heard that the big kids soaped the windows on Halloween & all we had was a box of Tide & I couldn’t reach the windows anyway, so I poured a big pile of it on the neighbor’s doorstep & I never figured out how my mom knew it was me until we had kids.