Souvenirs

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  • Les Etudes

    “Courage, Nicholas,” I tell him, “You have what it takes.” “No worries,” I say to my student who forgot his online tutoring lesson. “Pas de probléme. I’ve had five seniors. I know what that looks like.” And I did and… Continue reading

  • Dearie

    She had the last word, after all. Researching my paternal grandmother–my step-grandmother, actually, as my father’s mother died of breast cancer when I was only one–I came across the crowning glory of her life. For some women, it is children.… Continue reading

  • The Shake Down

    She’s standing there with a knife in her hands, shaking it at me she’s so angry. Tense moment #567 in the span of so many throughout this impossible situation, though most of them not involving weapons. “It doesn’t work that… Continue reading

  • Busy on the Inside

    December 2022 Got my holiday FOMO in high gear again this year, feeling sad and torn over the lovely holiday events and activities going on that we won’t attend. Too busy, too behind, too stressed, and too much dealing with… Continue reading

  • The Harvest

    I think I roasted the squash just for spite. Or a distraction—something else to gripe about, something to take her mind off the many things I hadn’t done right in the short time I was there. Too much tomato in… Continue reading

  • Cover Me

    It’s five a.m. and there are lights in our woods. I can see them out the bedroom balcony window, trajectories of light, all angular—all up, all down, piercing the silent trees standing clueless; and then a car, emerging slowly through… Continue reading