It’s July 1st: one week after our original closing date. I’m 1100 miles from the house we’ve been trying to sell for 4 years, and I just learned it is over. Mortgage paid off. New owner. Confirmed via email to the agent with whom I left a limited Power of Attorney. The move last Friday [...]
It’s 1988, and my father and I are in his two-toned 1983 Suburban headed on I-40 West toward Hickman County, TN. Me: “Why do you like going into the woods to hunt deer so much?” Dad: “For stress relief. To get away from civilization.” Stress. Yes, going 60 miles from home, turning down a dirt [...]
Last weekend, Maddie’s preschool had some kind of singing celebration thing that involved their borrowing a church in midtown in the middle of the afternoon and singing songs of peace to honor MLK. The instructions sent home to parents said something like this: Children are encouraged to dress in a manner that honors their ethnic [...]
This afternoon, I had to go straight from picking up Maddie at preschool to a meeting with a prospective new realtor. Pretty Bride showed up separately, and we sat around a large glass conference table on Herman Miller Aeron chairs while waiting for the realtor and his associate to enter. The dude walked in, saw [...]
From left to right: the blond sprouts of Owen’s hair against his black car seat, Emilie’s staring into the bottom of a bag of gas station pretzels, Maddie’s disgust over her confinement to a car seat with no car, and Lola’s attempt to shield her pasty legs from the sun via a discarded coloring book. [...]
