She kneels in the damp earth, her long auburn hair slung in a messy ponytail, working to make her goodbye as welcoming as she can. I sit cross-legged on the sidewalk beside her and pick at the label of my beer bottle with dirty fingernails. My throat hurts, but I am determined that she …Now and then is now
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Jack the smaller badly behaved dog is in a frenzy of obsequious good-dogginess. He is leaping about the room in adorable baby-goat fashion, rolling puppyish in first my lap and then in Kallan’s, gazing up at us with falsely adoring eyes before leaping away again. He stands in the doorway to the kitchen and …Thumb Song for Jack “I can’t fall asleep.” I lean to kiss Maj’s forehead, “Just lie quietly.” “You always say that.” “It always works.” “It does not work, Mother . . . sometimes I am in here for hours, lying in the dark waiting for the Mother-wisdom to take hold, but its grasp is feeble.” “My wisdom is …Maternal-grievance sheep Mark hugs me and whispers in my ear, and I giggle. Silly man. I have mentioned before that Kallan is taking the best Health Class ever as part of 5th grade. Read here and here if you somehow missed the earlier posts I put up about what Kallan learned concerning the male reproductive system. …It’s different in every family |
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