Neighborly Tales

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 [...]

5:30 am to 6 am

The kitchen is clean. The window casts my reflection back at me; it’s dark out until well after 6:30 now. The coffee maker does its wind-up of grrr and pllllr like an engine rolling over  but not, and the water starts dripping into the carafe. I let the dogs out. I let the dogs back in. Sam [...]

Promise me something:

  No matter how old you get, you won’t stop making snow angels and testing waters, and pushing boundaries, leaving imprints of your longest reach, widest stride, and wings of white, even knowing they cannot ever last. Written for Six Word Fridays.

An open holiday letter

Season’s Greetings, all. With our world shrinking and our online interaction widening, sending a holiday greeting card by traditional mail makes less and less sense for me. For the past few years I’ve addressed and mailed cards with a conflicted heart: who do I leave off the list? People I haven’t seen in ages? People [...]

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