Everett at play with children at Beacon of Hope.
Read moreEverett said to me, sometime before supper, when nothing really was going on, “I miss Kenya.” Me too.
Read moreSo where do you sit when you’ve removed the piano bench to the other side of the room and turned it on its side so that it functions as a Very Essential Barricade to aid you in your defense in your Nerf gun battle with your brother? You don’t really sit. Not so much. Not […]
Read moreEverett had five new words yesterday. Five. “Listing.” He was pushing the cart for me on our way out of Wal-Mart. “Mom, the cart keeps going over this way,” he said. “That’s called listing,” I told him, and told him what it meant, and told him how it’s different from when you are, say, listing […]
Read moreWe have a cat. Her name is Minnie, and we’ve had her for fourteen years– longer than we’ve been parents, longer than we’ve lived in North Carolina, almost as long as we’ve been married. She is a Very Sweet Cat. I think rescued animals are often sweet, because they are, by and large, grateful. Minnie […]
Read moreWe were riding in the car, and Emma Grace asked me to pass the magazine back to her. It was a business magazine, but it had an image on the cover that intrigued her. “It’s an angel and a devil, Mommy,” she said to me. I could understand the angel part. In fact, I had […]
Read morethe Boy is the Most Unmanageable.” — Plato
Read moreI was the middle of three girls. No boys in our family. None. When I was growing up, boys always seemed a little weird to me. A little wild. A little unpredictable. And I often noticed, when we were at a house where Boys Lived, and were near them when they had their shoes off, […]
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