She woke up at midnight as soon as Big Friend’s hand touched her back. She sat up. Palmed her bangs out of her face. Said, “Oh hi. We need to…
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You know that moment when words fly out of your mouth, and you see them darting away into the atmosphere, irretrievable, and wish a little string trailed after them so…
“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…
Little Friend is now taking showers instead of baths. This change has come about thanks to a newly realized fear of hers: the bathtub drain. That black hole of a…
It’s the postman’s tread on my front porch. It’s the tea kettle’s whistle that goes ignored for minutes because the laughter in the other room is too loud. It’s the…
“EB not know how to fix this bracelet.” It’s today’s tempest in a teapot. A flimsy plastic purple bracelet (“Hey mom. This EB’s fav-0-rite color.”) has had the audacity to…