It was a bit tiresome waiting for them to be done in the kitchen. When he first moved in they said he could use it at 8:00 p.m. After they had cooked their dinner and cleaned up. It seemed somewhat reasonable. But the time had extended, and now it was…
I have never been able to ask for more sun because when it shines and I mean really shines, there is no need for more. The moments, hours, days of true sunshine that I have experienced have left me breathless. Moments when laughter seizes and joy flows. Looking around and…
When Nancy was seventeen she went to California to visit her cousin Tim, ten years older than her. She’s not sure why her mother sent her. She hasn’t seen Tim since she was twelve. …
My son came home to live with us again on a cold winter afternoon. And it was a very good day. Picked up from the hospital he walked from the car into the house with an ear-to-ear grin that would not leave for days. He was twenty-six years old.
The…
The other night my mother came to me. Her arm rested heavily across my chest in the manner of one who stands behind and drapes themselves across you. The heaviness was comforting and for just that moment I was with her. It was so very real that I thought it…
Death is just around the corner. I mean I hope not. But it lurks there.
A neighbour just passed away. She was the same age as me. The exact same. Year, month, day. Her husband passed away suddenly last fall. Went to hospital with stomach pains. …
She started work on a Thursday and was given the task of stacking shelves to start just like most new employees. Quiet and polite she did her job efficiently asking questions when needed. …
It was over a month ago when I wrote the last time here on Medium. And when I stopped writing is directly related to when catastrophic, record-breaking rainfall formally called an “atmospheric river” flowed down onto parts of my province. …
With the profoundness induced perhaps by sunshine and alcohol in the form of a margarita, I am waxing poetic. Only to myself, and only on paper. I am removed from my life for a brief period of time. Transported to an alternate universe where someone provides all my meals, tidies…
I want you to know that you can form an attachment to a photo of a child, a description even. Or words only. They can make you fall in love.
I am talking about adoption. When you are given a profile of a child that you haven’t yet met. Sometimes…
