As you can probably guess by now, I really enjoy stories where everything doesn’t end well, where a hard fall illustrates difficult truths, and where there’s a dearth of sunshine […]
The Connecticut Shootings: A Letter to My Children
It’s been five days since that terrible thing happened in America. You and I have talked about it some, though I never know how thoroughly to explain a tragedy. As […]
The Giving Tree: An Advent Celebration
Children are great givers. Oh, they’re takers at times, too (aren’t we all?), but time and again the children in my life have astonished me with their willingness to give […]
Our Shared Words
She was a little too brazen for my liking. “If you’re going to go the special-needs route, you will need a sense of humor,” she said. “This process is awkward, […]
Lying Down on the Job
See the young father coming home from work. He is bone-tired, especially between the ears. If this was the late 1950s, he would kiss his wife on the way through […]
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