"if you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it" John Irving
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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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 …
"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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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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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 …
I'm entering 2018, not with a word, but with a question. * * * * * Leo is three years old. We walk into his room at bedtime. The city is cold outside his window, and the radiator at the foot of …
