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Toddler Life
Last week I was talking to my daughter about something she needed to do but was finding difficult. I jokingly suggested that I should make her a sticker chart with a prize box just like I did when she was small. She could get stickers for doing difficult things and then trade them in for prizes. She looked at me very earnestly and informed me that she thought it was a great idea. I think all of us need sticker charts and prize boxes. Do you have to make a scary phone call? Do it and you can have a sticker. Clean the bathroom, exercise, forgo the chocolate cake, or…
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A Poem for a Thursday #208
David Ray is an American poet. He has published twenty-two volumes of poetry and has also written essays, memoirs, and fiction. According to Wikipedia, “he is particularly noted for poems that, while being rooted in the personal, also show a strong social concern.” Do you have hope for the future? someone asked Robert Frost, toward the end. Yes, and even for the past, he replied, that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was, something we can accept, mistakes made by the selves we had to be, not able to be, perhaps, what we wished, or what looking back half the time it seems we…
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Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig
Ten hours of driving. Nine separate groups of people visited. Eight (million) texts sent to my husband to keep him updated with all we were doing. Seven different delicious dinners cooked for us. Six nights spent in a hotel. (And at least as many people were slightly offended that we didn’t ask to stay with them.) Five hours spent chatting with one of my oldest friends. Who needs therapy when you have friends like that? Four pottery pieces painted with my sister, niece, and daughter. Three people delighted to be back in Connecticut. Two (too) many people we didn’t have time to see. One visit home.
