The following is an assignment about forming imagery in stories from Ray’s homeschooling curriculum that took on a beautiful life of its own. I encouraged her as she dictated, and helped her to order what became an elaborate story in a manner that made sense to those of us not living in her head, but […]
No matter how I strained my ears in the courtroom, I couldn’t understand what was being said. The air con was blasting and the lighting seemed bureaucratic and unfriendly. The judge was an older Australian donning a tired judge’s wig. Now and again a word would stand itself up and swirl in my brain as […]
I started writing this Monday afternoon. It’s been a very long time since I made a concerted effort to write, and I was proud of myself. Despite the typically unbearable heat of October I was winning. Ray was spending a much anticipated afternoon at the office. Willa was asleep. Cricket was asleep. Two children peaceful […]
Brian pulled the schoolroom desk into the girls’ room and set up the computer as I tucked blankets around weak girls and filled water bottles. It didn’t take much tucking or settling. Both girls were feverish and lethargic, the misery of sickness already well established. Even so, it didn’t dampen their excitement that the evening […]
“NOOOOOO. Not again!! Please???” Muffled grunts and a loud, “MOMMYYYY!!! NO POWERRRRR!!!!” The day my child raged at the fan was an eye-opener. Later she told Grammy she loves the outside of our new house, but the inside is “funky.” I’m sorry… what??? Funky?!? What is funky about the house we poured so much energy, […]
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