Giggling weasel
Picture a wet weasel. Small, furry, hot, wet. Now picture it wrapped around your neck on a day with 90 %humidity. Then picture the weasel clawing you. That’s what it felt like to carry Bean about yesterday, post a dip in the lake. But his giggles were worth it. It was our first adventure into [...]
Peekaboo!
Wet Heat
The humidity was unbearable today. Dark billowing clouds hinted at thunderstorms in the stratosphere but no rain came to rinse the water out of the air. I felt like I had bathed in apple juice. Made me wish for impossibly cool things: iced tea in a limo, an arctic cruise, the chill of an Imax [...]
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, ZZ Packer
A collection of short stories that captures the scope of lives on the periphery of things. Often painful, poignant and well worded, most of the stories left me staring off out the window, imagining more. I was impressed with Packer’s breadth of character’s and her deftness at making them believable. Often short story collections make [...]
20 Weeks Old
Dear Bean, You are a 20 week old bean today. That means you’re five months old. Where did the time go? Holding you tonight, in the big white armchair in the livingroom, with your face against mine, I could hardly imagine you as the little grunty thing you were, newborn. Today you went for your [...]
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