June 22, 2010

In the Span of an Hour

I sat in the doorway as the wind picked up and my son asked, hushed, “Will a twister come?”

“Maybe,” I replied calmly.

“Twisters are only make believe, Mama.”

But he pushed closer against my shoulder and watched the dark clouds billow and sway.

“Smell the rain,” I whispered.  It rode thick on the [...]

June 21, 2010

Luckily, Sabretooth Tigers are Extinct

The other day on the radio, the local DJs polled listeners about whether or not they’d peed in a pool before. I only tuned in for a little while (I hate that particular morning show) but the callers were surprisingly passionate about either peeing or not peeing in the pool.

A few of them [...]

June 16, 2010

Sometimes my Vocabulary Threatens to Narrow to a Few Choice Expletives

I’m having a hamster wheel kind of day.  I can see where I think I’m going.  But I’m waiting.  Waiting to hear if a doctor will give me a label, a simple word, a diagnosis to work with. (Sensory Processing/Integration Disorder doesn’t qualify a child for state services.) We have an appointment at the [...]