On Monday, September 10, 2001, a nurse came to my house and drew blood from my son. The results of such test were always supposed to arrive quickly but they always took twenty-four hours. She was checking his red cell count. It had been low the previous Thursday at his regular clinic visit. I asked [...]
My son casually dropped the idea that he was going to drive his family to Iowa to attend a Power Show that he remembered from his own childhood. A Power Show in this case is a showcase for old engines, steam or diesel or firewood, from the early 1900’s. My husband almost as casually — [...]
Here's a short short story that I did as an experiment. Update; As soon as I posted I thought what that fragment needed was.... but I don't have time right now! I know all those stories where the hero is told he will kill his father and marry his mother, so he runs away. Then [...]
Last Thursday, I left for a Celebration of Life/aka a funeral and in my general stress forgot to post this on Friday. Enjoy it now. Longfellow wrote six sonnets on Dante and Italy, and cathedrals where he thought about Dante. This one (number five) is remarkably Eucharistic. V I Lift mine eyes, and all the [...]
I succumbed to peer pressure this week and read the Instagram posts that supposedly detail a mom-fight about whether children can have Oreos in their lunches. (Google is your friend.) The question arose because one mom wanted to control the lunches of children who were not her own. The posts have been declared by some [...]
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