I'm just pulling the garbage out of the can to get it ready to take it to the curb when my sister texts: "Hey mom and I are gonna h...

"This episode has gone off the rails," I say when we pause the show to duck into the kitchen for seconds on dinner. As I scoop and...

In the dream, I'm walking out of the theater and into another large space, open, like a convention center or an airport, high ceilings. ...

I lost my dad a year ago. Not long after, my aunt asked if I was going to write an obituary. What I wrote was mostly that, a little bit upsi...

In honor of Father's Day, I thought I'd look back into some of my early diaries and pull out some passages about him, like I sometim...

It's 7:54 on July the 20th, 2019, and I'm sitting in front of my laptop computer in the thick air-conditioner air, waiting for the ...

I'm up before six, sitting at the computer. In a few minutes I'll have to run down to wake Stephen up and then in about forty-five ...

When I was a kid, I had a baby doll. Her name was Lucy Barker. She was named after my mom's first and middle names (from before Mo...

1979 May 16—I got the new hamster today he has funny ears. My Dad gave me the idea to name him Bunny. He had long ears. The hamster, not...

1978 June 8—A Boy was wating water and throwing rocks at Me Mara and Edina. In my early days, I often only wrote once or twice a month...

I'm driving Stephen to work, and we're making a decision, even though we're not saying so. Noni's funeral in Arlington. May...

I wake up before the alarm goes off, and the last bit of dream sits here, on my pillow. I've dreamed it almost every night for the last...

For Father's Day, I thought I'd pull out a quick moment from an old diary, like I did for Mom on Mother's Day. Well, I fell dow...

Two days to cram in the week's work at Powell's before Mom and Dad arrive and I take the rest of the week off. This two days happens...

Don't suppose it would make as pretty a picture as the avocados and vegemite (and wouldn't be quite as delicious) but a second care ...