Kickoff

I had to keep telling myself to calm down. It was hard not to be excited, playing in the showcase game of your professional life. Read more

Fairy Chore

“James, Mrs. Hamilton needs help hanging up her Christmas lights.”  Read more

All the Ways I Love You

We don’t have much money, so she thinks about special occasions all year long, watching for sales and carefully choosing gifts for the birthday three months for now.  She relishes the surge of excitement when she picks out a present she’d love to get herself.  Humming happily as she digs into her favourite chocolate cake, she doesn’t notice me pushing it aside after I’ve blown out the candles.  I hate chocolate.
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A conversation unspoken

She likened it to packing for a week-long trip – changes of clothes, snacks, drinks, extra shoes, a sweater in case it turns cold, medicine and emergencies contact telephone numbers, a camera, games, toys, the list was impressive. All this for only one person, and a tiny person at that. A morning outing took hours of prep time. Read more

My Name Is

He sat me down and looked at me. Quizzically.

“Okay, Daughter, why you put Kimberly as your name on math homework?”

I stared back at him in silence.

His eyes bored into my own, increasingly quizzical. “This your math homework or not?” Read more