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Latch
I am dizzy with fatigue these days, slogging. The baby is plump, but he is plump on my milk. Slow to catch on to solid foods, he is plump on the last ounces of my energy. One day last week, I...
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Resolve
When I was younger, we rarely celebrated New Year’s Eve with any kind of hoopla. My parents did not entertain big, drink big or spend big, so New Year’s Eve celebrations were quiet, family affairs....
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Keys
Several years ago I nearly severed the tip of my middle finger in a moment of carelessness in the kitchen. I was using a paring knife to separate two frozen veggie burgers that I intended to put on...
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Negatives
Today blueprint is a word used to refer informally to any kind of plan, but in the beginning, it was about the process. Alphonse Louis Poitevin, a French chemist, discovered in the...
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So Be It
For the last week my oldest son has been away at the beach with my twin and nephew. He’s living the dream, which amounts to a week without his brothers. He loves his brothers, but there are a lot of...
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Transactions
In all the blue skies of my living, I have never been able to shake that hovering cloud of worry over money. Perhaps it’s the legacy of grandparents who lived through the Depression. Or my own...
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Missing
Callie-the-cat isn’t coming back. It’s been two months since she disappeared. I finally packed up the litter box last weekend and found a home for the enormous cat condo taking up space in our sun...
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Epistles
I’ve been saving letters and postcards since I was a child. In a tiny closet in my attic study are hat boxes filled with these relics. Most of them are from my twin, my mother, and my grandmothers,...
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Solomon’s Dilemma
A story titled “A Father’s Struggle to Stop His Daughter’s Adoption” appeared earlier this week on The Atlantic Monthly’s web site. It’s a riveting read about a birth father’s quest to gain custody of...
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Results
Less than a month ago I sent away for a twin zygosity test from a company that specializes in analyzing DNA for twins and triplets. I sent away for a bit of science to tell me if my twin and I were...
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Grace
The first dog lasted less than two weeks. And by “lasted,” I mean, “lasted.” Four days after he became ours, Benji (short for Benjamin Franklin) ended up at the vet hospital. He had been vomiting and...
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Caledonia
When the car hit a slick spot and spun around in the middle of the highway, I recorded the metaphor to share with her one day—this image of a little white car in white-out conditions on a snow-covered...
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The Home
Photo by Moe Zoyari I’ve been here twice before. The first time, maybe six years ago, I got out of the car to walk along the iron gate in front of the property. I didn’t know much about the house then...
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Two Mothers
Pop on over to this site for my latest essay. Thanks to Michelle Madrid-Branch for inviting me to contribute–and for giving me a chance (with a deadline) to write about an experience I had in South...
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