When our sons were young we had a tradition of spending a week each summer on Monhegan Island, eleven miles…
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Boys
They grow up. They leave home. And then, of course, they come back. They return bearing bags of dirty laundry,…
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Present Moment
They are home at last, both sons. And I’m perched here at the kitchen table, for about two brief minutes…
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Spring break
Every year since our sons were very young, our family has come to Florida for a week of visits with…
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Seventeen
My baby turned seventeen yesterday. Of course, he hasn’t been a baby for a very long time, and yet, because…
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Halloween shopping
Every year since my younger son Jack was three or so, we have tried on Halloween masks together. It was…
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