What have I lost? Too much. What am I grieving? Too much. There are times I feel the overwhelming sense of loss fall through me and I can’t catch the tears in a butterfly net. Off they flutter, landing on this memory or touching on that ache in my soul….
The only real reason why I even remember Jim is because of the tree with avocados in his backyard. He lived across the street from us my entire life, and I don’t remember much about him. Jim and his wife lived in the same green house that never changed even when the neighborhood…
I encountered many poorly behaved boys and girls, and even worse parents, in my years of education. It is, as they say, an occupational hazard. I do like to think that most people know how to adhere to the very basics of human decency, the first being “treat the elderly with kindness and respect.”…
Guest post by Rachel Thompson This article first appeared as a guest post on the amazing Nicole Lyons’ The Lithium Chronicles and is reprinted here with attribution and her permission Every morning, as I drive my child to school and back, I pass an old brown El Camino parked in a random…
We’ve all seen the “bossy” meme that’s made the rounds on social media. You know the one. It usually shows a woman (or maybe a young girl) with arms petulantly crossed and scowling. The caption will read “I’m not bossy, I have good leadership skills!” We laugh and click “like”…
As a mother who insists on staying involved in her children’s lives, I make an effort to read articles that come along warning me about the latest dangers or improvements in the world that will directly affect my son or daughter. My son, who is fifteen, is growing up in…
