From the monthly archives:

May 2011

Stop Knocking Over My Glass!

May 29, 2011

I’ve tried this whole optimist thing for awhile now.
I offered up my anxieties to the saints who look down on me from above in good, Catholic fashion. I looked at the all the blessings in my life and closed my eyes to the trials.
They’re minor, most of them. I’ll give you that.
But some of them?
Are [...]

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Running

May 13, 2011

I feel like writing.
I don’t have anything that earth-shattering to share, not that I ever really have. The stories recorded here are so ordinary, but they are mine and so I read them again and again as I wander my own archives on a Friday night.
There are posts in which I say I will never [...]

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These (Long) Days

May 7, 2011

The baby is no longer a baby.
His legs pump as he runs across the yard to catch his father, and he trips on his big puppy-feet. He bounces off the grass as if it is made of rubber, the kind that super balls are made out of, those pink and blue toys that smell like [...]

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Centered

May 2, 2011

The stuff that’s been plaguing me the last little while is really not that big a deal.
I don’t know what little unseen epiphany I had this week, but I decided that I can’t worry so much anymore. It might be the fact that my whole body feels inflamed (and not in a good way, yo), [...]

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