Two years ago today, we lost our Audrey, just days after finding out she had cancer. I held her and sobbed on the floor of the vet’s office, reeling from the shock. The tumor was under and through her tongue. Completely inoperable, and getting bigger by the day. We’d adopted Audrey from our local city […]
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Ode to a difficult dog
Posted in Uncategorized on April 4, 2013 | 7 Comments »
Tourists
Posted in Uncategorized on April 2, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Two years ago, we were getting ready to return to Germany for the first time in eleven years, the first time with children. I lived in Germany for eight years of my childhood, and Tony and I spent our amazing, heartbreakingly beautiful junior year abroad in Berlin. My childhood in Germany was an idyllic one, […]
Meddling
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2013 | 2 Comments »
I wrote this almost a year ago in my amazing and addictive writing class. So addictive, in fact, that while my husband took the kids to dance class in our only car, I was committed enough to walk 4 miles to class. Or so the story was going to go. I have this tendency to […]
Six years
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2013 | 3 Comments »
It was a warm April afternoon in 1999. Tony and I were at the shelter, taking pictures of the adoptable animals, as we did every Friday. We were exhausted and filthy as we neared the end of the kennels. But then, in the second to last cage, there he was. Technically, his fur was white, […]
Snow
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“No snow,” said radio. “No snow,” said television. But snowflakes don’t listen to radio. Snowflakes don’t watch television. All snowflakes know is snow, snow, snow, snow. from Snow by Uri Shulevitz Every Christmas, my family read London Snow by Paul Theroux (now sadly out of print). In the book, London is blanketed by a snowstorm — […]
The Circus Train
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a general buzz of excitement on local blogs and Facebook right now, as there always is when the circus train arrives in town. Families are excitedly planning their circus visits and are anticipating the parade of animals from the train through downtown. And I am profoundly sad. I went to circuses as a child. […]
Someone else’s extraordinary
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10, 2012 | 3 Comments »
How do you follow a blog post for which you have pictures of a robin hatching from an egg? Not at all, apparently. Last week was rough — a week of unintentionally hurt feelings and a very sick foster cat, sent back home with me and unlikely to make it through the night. “Feed her […]
A Beginning
Posted in Uncategorized on April 19, 2012 | 7 Comments »
I’ve been wanting to write in this space for such a long time, but I’ve been at a loss for a beginning. I even reread Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, in which she tells the story of her writer father helping her brother finish an overwhelming school project on birds. His advice to his son […]