My husband can tell that my annual bout of parenting fatigue has arrived when I lock myself in our bedroom with the laptop and a half-pint of Starbucks Java Chip ice cream. I’ll sit on the bed crying into a soft old t-shirt from college, rattle around YouTube, and occasionally whimper, “I can’t do this […]
Naming Our Children A Thousand Times
I was cleaning out a box of stuff in my youngest son’s bedroom when I found a homemade book — five or six pieces of white paper folded in half and stapled down the middle to make a spine. The pages were packed with little kid drawings and some words to a story. My organized […]
Gurgle and Snot
Once upon a time there were two little pigs named Gurgle and Snot. “Snot” doesn’t sound like a very nice name in human language, but in pig language, “Snot” sounds more like “Charlie.” Snot was the most polite pig you could ever meet. He said things like, “It’s very nice to meet you” when he […]
A Saturday Poem for My Son Who Likes Pirates Best
Once upon a midnight purple, oceans churned with maple surple. Pancake ships with waffled decks held berried treasures from Uzbek- A-Something-East on Daddy’s map. “Butter me timbers!” yelled Flap Jack, “For thar she blows! The great white fluff! A thousand whippings made her tough! In all my days upon this ship, Ne’er man or beast […]
Stinky Feet (A Funny Song)
Stinky Feet words by Rebecca Reynolds and Ry Wilson, music and performance by Ry Wilson photo credit: Carey Pace (www.careypace.com) V1 Once there was a bitty boy with tinky stinky feet His momma loved him dearly, And she treated him so sweet. His momma said to shower, But the bitty boy would not […]
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