Tag Archives: children

By Any Other Name (A True Story)

Posted on August 21, 2015 by

Do you have one of those things that is long and you make noise by pressing the holes like this–? Then as if in a movie, or a nightmare, my words slowed to half-speed drawl, and before my brain could stop my … Continue reading →

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A Special Kind of Attention

Posted on January 30, 2014 by

Early one recent winter morning, my four-year-old son came barreling into my bedroom. It was still dark outside, and the heat in our apartment was cranking up; the pipes in the bathroom banged on and on. “Mommy, would you build … Continue reading →

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Dreaming With Light

Posted on March 11, 2013 by

My children sleep with dream lights. They are not the Dream Lites advertised on television because we assumed, of course, those would not work. When the kids started asking for the ones on television, however, we found these at a … Continue reading →

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