Posts Tagged ‘children
Hecka lotta wasps
I figured when I got rid of most of the overgrown shrubs around the perimeter of my house, we’d see way less wasps this summer. How could I have known the evil buggers would decide to move into the black metal rim of the trampoline, all nice and heated and hollow…and protected from my sight. [...]
To Harriet…have I told you I love you?
I’m in a relationship with someone, and I foresee another decade of it, if she can put up with me. And her boss. It’s Harriet, our pediatrician’s nurse. Harriet, I adore you. There, I’ve said it publicly. Most folks can’t imagine (unless they also have enough children to form a small basketball team) how much [...]
My little birthday girl
This is unabashedly personal, I agree, but I am taking this space to wish my oldest daughter a very happy birthday. She turns 23 today, a fact I can scarcely believe. It was just this sort of morning — cold and glazed with pink — when I stood in my bathroom in Anchorage, plucking my [...]
Please, no smashed kids
I’m struggling with something I see every day on my way to work. I come into town on Ninth Avenue, about 7:15 a.m. Nearly each of those days, as I approach closer to downtown, I see TINY children — barely bigger than their backpacks and certainly not large enough to dent a car bumper — [...]
