The hotel room is dark. Maile is asleep in the bed beside me. A short line of white light shines under the door on the other side of the room. The yellow street lights glow between the blinds. The air …
Watching My Daughter and Her Grandfather and the 70 Years Between Them
She walks ahead of him. Now that he has agreed to follow her outside, she seems to have forgotten he is even there. She is only two, after all, and her sights moved rather quickly from getting someone …
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Forever Lost in My Normality
I am sitting in a coffee shop I don't often visit, a smaller one in the middle of the city where I live. It's a bustling, bright place with worn wood floors and large windows. Nearly every seat is …
In Which We are Beginning to Find Our Way
"I thought Mom went to college to be a Mom," Sammy said, and he was completely serious, and we all paused for a moment before laughing hysterically, and therein surfaced one of this family's major …
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Some Thoughts on Book Contracts, Destinations, and the Importance of Hope
The house is remarkably quiet, so quiet in fact that I can hear the hot water murmuring its way through the radiators. Outside, exhaust from our hot water boiler escapes the pipe, clouds up, gets …
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What Are You Waiting For?
It is 7am, and I have already been up for nearly 5 hours, having driven someone to an airport in Allentown and back in the wee hours of the morning. I left home around 3am and returned around 6am and …