Everyday Tales

A step back

We crave simplicity. We seek, without knowing we seek, the growing things, the green things, the endless stretches of things. Our eyes fall on the soft lines of the natural world, and we feel a balance settle inside us. We love horizons and vistas, skylines and star scapes. Often, my family and I travel for [...]

Happy Mother’s Day

to the mother of my mother. Without you (and the father of my mother, too), I wouldn’t be the lucky daughter I am, nor the fun, smart, loving, and wise parent I strive to be. We miss you this Mother’s Day and every day.

Record keeper

Sitting on the bottom shelf of the dining room bookcase are a row of fat, canvas-covered photo albums. They start at Nate’s birth, and dutifully carry on year after year, a line of brightly colored soldiers of family history. Some years, they’re scrapbooked meticulously. Others, they’re generated digitally from Kodak or Shutterfly. The most recent [...]

The world they’re inheriting

We’ve driving home from middle school; I’ve got a full car load of 8th grade boys. Their backpacks take up all the empty space at their feet, and they all smell slightly of sweat. I crack the windows because it’s April and the breeze is almost warm. Someone has a Z-bar and they all want [...]

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