The Snow Cake

“They were the same little people whose snowy socks went around and around my dryer…”

Of fireflies & darkness.

There once was a five-year old boy. It was summertime — and of course — there were fireflies.…

Bergamo

She told me that what she missed the most was that in winter, when the day was sunny,…

The Gathering and The Safety of the Burrito

I woke to a dream where I was on the street in twilight. With my little child.   A…

Watch me reading The Hospital Bed.

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Gleaming gone.

When my son was very, very small, there was a book we used to read to him. This…

Parking-Propelled Panoply Perfection

But ah, the exuberance of teenagers. Where I live, when there is a football game, the whole town…

The Twenty-Dollar Bill

When we lived in St. Louis I taught kindergarten sunday school. At the beginning of class, as in…

We’d like to put you in a home.

When I was a little girl, I always thought I would live near Chicago. It had never, in…

The Worst Thing That Could Happen

When I was a little girl living near Chicago, I imagined that the worst thing that could happen…

Perspective and Innocence

  Three days ago this happened: There is a family in Tel Aviv…many families in Tel Aviv…who go…

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