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Lies My Children Tell Me

Oh, there are a slew of them. You know they didn’t both forget to flush the toilet again, yet the only one who willingly uses it without my constant supervision vehemently denies blame. They very well could have torn apart the bookshelf and strewn its contents all over the floor in a collective effort, yet [...]

Then He Smiled At Me and Pissed His Pants

It starts every morning when he gets up. We tell him it’s time to go potty and he responds, “I DON’T WANT TO GO POTTY! I went potty the night after yesterday. Why do I have to go potty EVERY DAY???”

We calmly explain to him that he is a big boy now and he needs [...]

Nightmares

This past month has been a difficult sea of movement for me, at times a torrent of waking hours followed by minuscule passages of fitful sleep.  How I got through it all, it would seem, is simply by the fact that time marches forward.  It may not feel simple as it is passing, but pass [...]

Night Vision

When I was a small child my father remodeled my bedroom walls.  It was the late seventies, and paneling was quite the fashion.  My parents had chosen a white colored paneling, and I can recall that the etchings of the wood throughout each plank had a hunter green hue.   I’m sure it was beautiful, the way [...]