Your Job
Your child is not a fashion show.Your job is not to keep her from ever crying.Your success shan’t be measured in how well she sleeps.Your child is a will and a soul.Your job is to show her how to be … Continued
A New Combination of Words
Every chord’s been played and combined with lyrics.No sooner do I think of a song but I hear iton the radio in someone else’s words.There are no more firsts, only seconds and thirds. Language evolves like new strains of germsbut … Continued
Restless Leg Syndrome
This baby is awake–her legs are climbing stairs.There are no stairs in bedbut she doesn’t seem to care.Her climbing muscles firewith no promise of abatement.“Restless leg syndrome”would be an understatement.
Me and Mary
I’m now quite sure that Mary “treasured up all these things”while nursing baby Jesus. And I hope she could sleep while He slept.I wonder if she had done much baby-proofing by the time the wise men came.And did she have a high shelf … Continued
Good to Know
I could gain thirty pounds and still not be technically overweight.Good to know.Some celebrities broke up, and some went on a date.Good to know. Whole wheat is good for you or whole wheat is bad.Good to know.And just for Christmas … Continued
Festive
Tis three days before Christmas and I’m sick in bed. My face is kind of greenish, my nostrils are red. So I’m looking pretty festive as I sit here sipping tea. I bet that even Santa wishes he were me.
Some Other Year
December twenty-one, shortest day of the year.All the days are too short as Christmas draws near.Like the anti-thief in the night, the day will be here,and I won’t be ready. That’s what I fear.Let’s give up on the parties and … Continued