So Close
I felt warm pressure and realized it was the woman behind me. The inch I managed to claim while waiting in line for the Tower had...
Tea And a Memory
During WWII, my dad was invited to dinner with a French family. Before he left the barracks that night, he ducked into the mess hall,...
"It's Cheaper Than Butter"
exclaimed my exuberant husband, dropping a massive wheel of brie into our weird shopping cart. We hauled the cart up the flight of stairs...
Apparently It Was Illegal
but Gary and Lauren climbed a sculpture shaped like a pile of blocks winding into the sky like a chunky staircase, a staircase set on the...
A New Use for Tea
Standing outside our front door with our beachy feet, we had two choices: we could track sand into our fussy landlord's apartment, or we...
"I See an Eyeball."
We ordered fried fish, imagining chunks of something freshly caught in a crispy batter but getting instead a pile that looked like french...
Just Close That Door
Getting over the threshold is the hardest part of any adventure. By the time the house key is in the lock, I feel like I've run a...
Right Before He Left...
...the toilet overflowed into the shower in a truly disgusting mess of tremendous magnitude. Lauren was at camp and Gary was due at the...
A Fingerprint and a Mug Shot
In the intense heat of the desert, I chucked copper pipes into the back of our truck and hauled them to a recycling center. The attendant...
Another step closer
We climbed the winding curves on a highway named "The Rim of the World," and then dropped our little one off for a week of summer camp....
