what giving creature is this

something like a whispered song

Thursday, April 30, 2015

no rest

my son, he jumps off his bike that his legs and arms are still too small to master and he bounds across the road I'll just run instead! he battle-cries and gallops uproad toward siblings his abandonment is a retreat, a falling-back from a relentless gravity that has pulled him, since birth, away and up an incline toward something that is...

Friday, April 3, 2015

Disney Tripping

We took the kids to Disney On Ice on Valentine's Day, thanks to the generosity of my employer, who received several comp tickets and took pity on me when he saw the family portrait-mural that stretches across my office wall. "Do you really have 8 children?" he asked. "Yeah. Yup." I get asked this a lot and the reactions range from incredulity to pity to fear. ...