Meditations

Outstanding 8th Grade Boy

“Shawn!” someone shouted in a whisper. I looked up from the wood block I was sanding and saw Andy and...

Junie

All of the other dogs were barking. Pleading really. Not her. She was facing away from her gate, tightly curled...

Five People

I do not know their names. Our interactions were brief and distanced. And, I would not know them if we...

Mr. Baker

I’d been away so long. Too long. The occasion for coming home, I no longer remember. But I needed to walk....

Number 32

“Why do you still wear that?” my wife asks. She eyes (not without a bit of loving dismissiveness) the gold-plated...