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There’s no mistaking this ache. It’s the longing of a mother. It’s the dull ache of empty arms. He has been a stranger, this son with a name: Claudel. I keep a two-inch-tall photo of him on my desk. I already knew this much of him, but this was all I knew: He is part […]
Well, that was easy. I’ve already accomplished my New Year’s resolution. A week ago, I declared that 2011 would be the Year of Imperfect. And I testified that I would wear that badge boldly. And I wouldn’t stress out too much if I did less-than-the-unattainable-best, and I would maybe even laugh at myself a little […]
I once knew a young woman who didn’t know for several months that she was pregnant — or maybe she was just ignoring the obvious. I feel the same way about my world. Are we pregnant but unaware? It is Advent, and the whole cosmos is expecting. But am I paying attention to the glaringly […]
Blue-gray morning light slants through the kitchen window. I arrange strips of bacon in a hot skillet. They pop, curl, emit an aromatic wake-up call to youngest daughter. She shuffles across the wood, dragging a pink blanket through crumbs behind her, rubs eyes with a closed fist. I crack eggs, season, butter 12-grain bread. We […]
Maybe it’s because we used to read each other’s stuff when hardly anyone else was reading our stuff. Maybe it’s because I so easily find myself in the middle of his stories about common, ordinary people like me. Or maybe it’s just because he’s the kind of guy who sees people not as fans or […]