Past
They arrived all California tan and under dressed for our bleak, bare Sunday. Having left here more than a year ago, they had forgotten how bitter the prologue to winter can be. We laughed at their thin coats and sun streaked hair. It was natural, unguarded, this teasing. There was great relief in finding their [...]
Cruel
As parents of elementary aged children, as former second grader ourselves, we all know that second grade homework can be a bitch.
We’ve been there, hunched over our spelling lists, sputtering and wiping away tears as we try, try, try to remember that “grage” is actually spelled g-a-r-a-g-e. Or that “cercos” is, for some inexplicable [...]
The Same
I’ve returned to blogging skeptically, reluctantly because I know some of things I share here have damaged my already delicate home life and I’m doing a pretty good job fucking that up without rubbing salt in the wounds. But I need this space somehow, this collective nod, the communal understanding, to help me make sense [...]
Leaf Drop and Amputation
Call it depression, call it surrender, call it what you will but I am NOT raking up all those leaves this year. In autumn’s past I’ve espoused the clean-as-you-go-theory of yard work, raking nearly every day to stay on top of the mess, finding each gust of wind personally insulting as new leaves continued [...]
November
What is it about November that just sucks the soul out of a person? It’s as if the human brain feels the need to keep time with the end of natural beauty and begins a sort of mental hibernation, shedding layers of complexity, raking hobbies and interests and efforts towards personal hygiene into one great [...]
