Tonight as the night began to draw her curtain against the sun I couldn’t help but think how fast the years have slipped past. Sometimes I want to set the […]
The Sound of Raindrops: Promise of a New Day
The rain came somewhere in the night. And it’s melodic sound pulled me from bed earlier than usual, my mood considerably lighter than the day before. Yesterday wasn’t so […]
Drive by Lunch
“I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at […]
The Fragility of it All
I’ll take your part When darkness comes And pain is all around Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Like a bridge over troubled water I […]
Family Portrait
Yesterday, while we had the entire Backyard Playgroup together again, we had our family portrait taken. The daylight hours, having been pushed back to standard, bent long rays of gold […]
The Crashed Computer, an unexpected reminder
By and large we are not technically savvy people, so I was skeptical when Jimmy announced we were going to retrieve lost information from off of the hard drives of […]
The Gift: A short story in parenting
When my son Max was four he went to pre-school at a small private school in Boulder, Colorado, the school was nestled in the outskirts of town with a playground […]
