Summer Calls and Kids Help It

  Summer is at midpoint and I notice myself and people around me alternating between a panic and plodding moes. We like a collective ant colony movealong the path of seasonal tasks and pleasure. Produce and blossoms come in waves and I pick and pack away. The waves and the summer sun beckon and I [...]

Father,Daddy,Papa,Dad,Pop Whatever You Call Him Treat Him

  Father’s Day approaches and men and women the world over are wondering what to do about it?
  Men don’t know what they want.
  Women respond by trying to give them what they want them to want or what they think they might want.
  Why don’t we just ask them what would be fun for [...]

Ask Mom

“Did you listen this time? You are so annoying…”
  “It must be so scary to be pregnant with triplets.” (Heard by Mom as question. Please tell me about birth and pregnancy.)
  Well it can be. I wondered every time if I was pregnant with twins. I watched four friends carry and give birth to twins [...]

anticipation

Apple pie,an old farmer his obese wife , cluttered counters,birds imagined and their imaginary trills, spring with snow still on the ground and undoubtedly the ground is frozen under foot, apple crisp with oatmeal in it, oatmeal with apples in it, and Gladys Alyward triumphantly trudging into the city with 100 orphans tattered,bandaged feet but [...]