Last Saturday night we met several friends at the park to watch Othello. Our group covered several large picnic blankets, but the kids sort of migrated to the middle and giggled a lot. Sometimes I’d look over and it would take me a moment to register that these were “our kids” because they looked so…
Author: thirdstoryies
a circus post on father’s day
The comparison is not exactly accidental. This life we have created slips quickly and frequently into a sort of circus atmosphere. Lucky for me (and us) it’s generally the one-ring type and not a three ring event. Having someone operating in the same sometimes maddening circle as me is something I celebrate every day of…
hot
On a hot day like today, it’s nice to have someone to bring you a hat full of cold water every few minutes for your feet. Over and over again. Next time we’ll eat the popsicles before the fountain, not after. Maybe then we’ll leave just a bit of the stickiness behind. Strawberry-basil popsicles were…