Sometimes failure looks like a messy house. Failure leers at me from the kitchen sink where dishes multiply with the voracity of an alley-full of un-spayed cats. Failure jeers at…
Paper Doll Tales Posts
What does one do when one returns to Pittsburgh from a beach Thanksgiving to find a grey-shrouded, mist-breathing Midwinter has settled on her heavy haunches to brood until spring hatches?…
I’m grateful: 1. For a little girl with hair that spouts like a whale’s sneeze. 2. For a pastured turkey that glazed succulent and delicious after 12 hours in a…
I grew up in a desert-scape of rock gardens, cactus blooms, clacking palm fronds, and golden sky-dome. I grew up in the Arizona desert where we fried eggs on aluminum…
“Hey Mama. Will you give me a special treat? Guess why–’cause you love me?” Now tell me, please, how does an almost-three-year-old brain do the complex manipulations it takes to…
Do you remember today when you announced that you no longer care for Jack and Jill’s story due to their unfortunate spill down the hill? Remember when you face-planted-stomach-slid in…