Community
I’m fortunate enough to have friends who treat me like family, no matter how much time passes between our seeing each other. They are people I can comfortably reveal myself to, and
Stormy Weather
There were raging arguments in the house last week. I almost couldn’t get my weekly essay finished, and am late on this one, because my writing domain at home is an office
Proto-Teenager
I think the term “threenager” is misleading. It implies that three is the only age that comes with teenage-style attitude. Maybe we all know it, parents, and the term only came about
Drifting Away
I have some anxiety about death. Not my own, and not those of my dearest loved ones (that’s straightforward fear, not anxiety), but how to answer when it comes knocking at the
Summer Solstice
As summer officially begins in the Willamette Valley, it’s rainy and gray outside my office window. It’s supposed to stay rainy all weekend. Instead of being out in the yard, letting