Dear Son, It seems time’s fleeting hand runs fast and furious through the years. They blend and blur together as I realize this moment will be gone the instant I write it. Just yesterday, I was nursing you to sleep. Just yesterday, I was watching you stumble on your newly toddling feet. Just yesterday, I […]
A Portrait of Friendship and All It Gives
I listened to every word, every undercurrent that gently passed through them, and watched her as she opened her heart and handed a few pieces over. I took it all in as she uncovered the layered circumstance that had culminated in a heavy weight of concern. I was ready to respond in the silence that […]
The Worst Way to Spend A Wedding Anniversary
Darling Husband, I just wanted to remind you that we are spending our 15th wedding anniversary at our beloved son’s fourth grade recorder concert. Yeah. Listening to 75 nine-year olds blow through a squeaky plastic toy in the school’s gymnasium while sitting on folding chairs sounds thrillingly romantic, doesn’t it? Yeah. So, when you […]
