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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.

Lost at the Fair

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:20 PM in Children & Parenting
When I was 5, he said, my family forgot & left me at the fair. I wandered around in the bright sounds & smells of hot sawdust & cotton candy for hours. It was already too late by the time my parents found me. I haven’t been fit for decent society since.

Lifetime

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 3:20 PM in Family & Relatives Friends & Neighbors Inspirational Spiritual
We’re here to end it, I said & she said, No, we’re here to begin it & then she turned & opened her arms & everywhere I could see, there were people, like bright birds, calling with a thousand voices & suddenly I understood. Here is where it begins with all of us, together giving … [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.

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.