Kino’s eight. Sian and Loan were there with Amit (we met him last when Luna was three months pregnant). In a first, Luna dressed Sophie in shoes given her by Rosalind, their soft leather soles a good fit. Seated at his flaming cake, Kino made a bunch of faces. He was different from last […]
I was cradling Sophie in the kitchen, minding my business, when Luna, who was finishing up her breakfast, had a revelation. Where did the damn stickers come from? One clung to the edge of our fruit bowl. Another curled up at the edge of the sink. She’d wondered for weeks. Then she knew.
It was me, […]
Yesterday I needed a haircut and saw Oanh, my usual stylist. As she’s going to deliver a baby boy in September, we chatted about babies. (Where was Sophie? In her stroller with a good view onto my haircut.)
Then I pushed Sophie all over Broadway. Cal Anderson Park beckoned, but was still surrounded by chain […]
My Metro commute swings past the VA medical center. Two old veterans boarded and started talking. As they talked, I marveled.
They easily looked 10 years older than 52 and 54. During Vietnam each had considered running to Canada. Each ended up in the service, one with the 101st Airborne Division, the other taking it safe […]
Luna’s sewing herself a new jacket. She burst upstairs, happy as a bug, modeling the half-finished garment, its greenish trim sewn in here but not there. It was a Seventies pattern (she loves anything vintage). Larae had given her the brown fabric which I admired. I admired too the cut of the collar.
“Best of all,” […]
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