The boys are pretty good at letting me know when they’re not okay with something. Sometimes they can just out n out say it. Like, “Mom, no, so not going to happen.” Other times it takes some interpretation on my part. It’s part of this whole knowing you since the day you were born bit, [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Talking to E about Troy Davis
- 22
- Sep
You remember being 11? Remember how disjointed your world felt? The large spaces between the playground, the classroom, the kitchen table, the TV and your favorite bit of floor to spread out and do homework on? Do you remember how things filtered through one sphere to the other? Tuesday night at dinner E said the [...]
Capitulation
- 20
- Sep
It’s 2:30 in the afternoon on a Tuesday, I’m writing this from bed, drinking coffee while wincing from a caffeine headache because I’ve switched to decaf. Today is the last day of summer and I’m spending it inside. It’s beautiful out, warm, sunny, the freeway is busy, my blinds flutter with perfect swirling breezes. It’s [...]
The Difference
- 05
- Sep
I’m sitting in my kitchen mulling over a severed connection, bits of conversation rising then drifting away from the forefront of my mind. Words I’ve spoken, texted, heard and read moving along the slipstream… I’m orchestrating them into a score of meaning: voices, expressions, emotions, delays and responses. I’m trying to see if the words have [...]
Doesn’t Fit
- 02
- Sep
My sons are different shapes. E is long and lanky, C is tall and thick. Both are wonderfully, gratefully amazingly healthy. Can never not be appreciative of that fact. Never. They wear the same size pants, but various cuts fit differently. The other morning we were all getting ready for school. C grabbed a pair of shorts, [...]
