Open House. Closed House (or how I accidently ended up writing a small novel...
This Saturday will be the open house in remembrance of my dad. It will be held at my parent’s house, or I suppose I should get used to saying, my mom’s house. In a strange way I am decidedly not...
View ArticleMemories of Rosy
There is now one dog dish where once there were two. The spaces in between the walls of our house seem more empty. A seventy pound German Shepherd, apparently, can take up a lot of space. I can...
View ArticleOur Second Skin
Our clothes. We wear them for modesty because it is our cultural norm. We wear them to keep us warm and dry or to protect us from the sun. We wear them because we like the color or how they make us...
View ArticleSimple Sunday – Letter to a New Year
Dear 2013, We do not know each other yet, as you have not come around to say hello, so I thought I would write you this brief letter by way of introduction. I know that people have great expectations...
View ArticleSimple Sunday – Thank You Craig’s List!
Late last week we went and looked at it. Today it arrived. We have been wanted to get one of these for the longest time but we have just not found one in our price range that was close by. The...
View ArticleMemories with a Side of Spice Cake
Tuesday would have been my dad’s 81st birthday. It has been three and a half years since he died. Cody was in Kindergarten and Carter was a preschooler. Their memories of him, I’m afraid, are mostly...
View ArticleOpen House. Closed House (or how I accidently ended up writing a small novel...
This Saturday will be the open house in remembrance of my dad. It will be held at my parent’s house, or I suppose I should get used to saying, my mom’s house. In a strange way I am decidedly not...
View ArticleMemories of Rosy
There is now one dog dish where once there were two. The spaces in between the walls of our house seem more empty. A seventy pound German Shepherd, apparently, can take up a lot of space. I can...
View ArticleOur Second Skin
Our clothes. We wear them for modesty because it is our cultural norm. We wear them to keep us warm and dry or to protect us from the sun. We wear them because we like the color or how they make us...
View ArticleSimple Sunday – Letter to a New Year
Dear 2013, We do not know each other yet, as you have not come around to say hello, so I thought I would write you this brief letter by way of introduction. I know that people have great expectations...
View ArticleSimple Sunday – Thank You Craig’s List!
Late last week we went and looked at it. Today it arrived. We have been wanted to get one of these for the longest time but we have just not found one in our price range that was close by. The...
View ArticleMemories with a Side of Spice Cake
Tuesday would have been my dad’s 81st birthday. It has been three and a half years since he died. Cody was in Kindergarten and Carter was a preschooler. Their memories of him, I’m afraid, are mostly...
View ArticleBack in the Summer of ’95
A couple weeks ago during one of our dinner conversations, the question of whether cats have bellybuttons came up. I started telling a story of the momma cat who had her litter of kittens in the closet...
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