The Way We Spend Our Days Is the Way We Spend Our Lives

Four years ago today I would go into labor with Teddy. We knew many things about him already. We knew even that his name was Teddy. But the ...

 When life was cancelled last spring, and I speak in general terms here bc I frankly was not paying much attention and cannot give precise d...

Porter was the first of the kids to go back to school, and this first day was a first in a very real sense.  Though Porter has attended v...

Yesterday Porter gently kicked me out of the bathroom to attend to his urgent business. "Just go out there and wash your hands in the k...

One night 13 years ago I was studying for my Civil Procedure exam.  I had spent weeks memorizing all these intricate rules and exceptions an...

This morning I walked Will to his second day of second grade.  I have been building up to this task for almost a year now, since we live so ...

Somehow another school year is upon us already, pressing its Type A face with its schedules and time tables and homework into our darkened w...