“Can you help me make my Christmas list?” he asks. He’s asked a few times now. I remind him again that it’s not his birthday and that…he interrupts. “I know.” He’s angry. I lecture instead of listen. “No, you don’t know. I want you to sit down at the table… Read More
Archive Tag: kids
How To Practice
School work is done. The kitchen is clean. Clothes are hung up. And now the hardest part of Wednesday comes. She fans her fingers over the worn keys of her great great aunt’s piano and looks down, ignoring the lines and dots on the page. And she plays beautifully. She… Read More
Formed For Flight
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. -Genesis 2:7 “Richard.” He’s stirred from his nine year-old boy daydream, eyes wide and fixed on mine. “Richard, when you are a man…”… Read More
Jey’s Story With A Side Of Barbecue
A man in the front row lowered his hotdog to his lap. A woman placed her index finger over her pursed lips to shhh her chatty teenagers. For ten minutes Jey had the attention of 4,000 people. And all it took was one story. “Texas,” I said, “welcome to the… Read More
Orphan Thinking
“Forever?” he asked. I tucked his Spiderman blanket around him and sat on the edge of his bed. “No, not forever,” I said. “Just two days. And then I’ll come home and play with you.” The next morning he headed off to school and I drove to the airport. And,… Read More
The Right Answer(s)
8-2=6
3+4=7
10-8=2
“Great job.”
She stood beside me smiling. “This was too easy.”
I flipped the paper over… View Post