It took a long bath and a lot of soothing before my son was clean, calm, and coherent enough to explain
Her diagnosis was a blow. And 18 years later, she’s still a child I stand at the doorway watching Chaviva. She’s off to the side, singing to her own beat. She then gravitates toward the windows, where she can see the room’s bright colors, and the tables and chairs, reflected in the window pane.
In the vintage ring I found, I seek an echo of my life When I first saw the ring at the vintage sale, it was buried in a pile of gold trinkets. The garnet stone was so hidden, no light could catch it. “What do you think about this one?” I asked my sister.
Then I see the large white envelope, and I’m transported to a winter day some 15 years ago It’s time to tackle the storage closet. There’s a layer of dust on the uppermost shelves; it’s been collecting there for two years now. I keep procrastinating. I know I’ll need to discard half the
