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The Mural

The mural joined us in the fall of 2006. It was painted in acrylics over the space of a few weeks. The finishing touches emerged, swirling into corners and bleeding occasionally onto the ceiling and spattering, no matter how much…

Growing Pains

Something I wrote a while ago and I want to remember it. Iโ€™m in mourning.ย  My unsuspecting child hit the point of no return on his timeline. ย The moment when a boy becomes a man.ย  I do not refer to…

At Dawn

The rising sun is still a suggestion, painting a faint glow around the window shutters. The house feels like calm clear water, a faint refrigerator hum, one sparrow singing his personal thoughts on summer flits off to another backyard. Here…

Nobody Panic

I was a great parent before I had kids. Who knew my firstborn was going to practice base jumping from our rooftop into our pool on a bike when he was ten? Why would he eat a live grasshopper at…