Outstanding 8th Grade Boy
“Shawn!” someone shouted in a whisper. I looked up from the wood block I was sanding and saw Andy and...
“Shawn!” someone shouted in a whisper. I looked up from the wood block I was sanding and saw Andy and...
I dropped into my chair without attempting to resist gravity. I was beat. It was the end of another grueling...
There is this threshold. I walk my students up to it each semester. They stand on one side as they...
The other day Kyra and I were driving to the greenhouse talking about Dillon, high school and violence… ME: One...
All of the other dogs were barking. Pleading really. Not her. She was facing away from her gate, tightly curled...
I do not know their names. Our interactions were brief and distanced. And, I would not know them if we...
It’s 1989. I’m a senior. And, I’m hanging out in the library listening to the Q102 Morning Zoo. At the...
I’d been away so long. Too long. The occasion for coming home, I no longer remember. But I needed to walk....
“Why do you still wear that?” my wife asks. She eyes (not without a bit of loving dismissiveness) the gold-plated...
