Category: Stories

I watched such cooperation, encouragement, and help from my oldest to my youngest today that it stung, shining eyes and sniffles my only possible reaction. I declared my love and pride with hard, clutching hugs, burying my face in Erin’s hair and memorizing her perfection.   Adrian, ever-following, ever-trailing, ever-mimicking, struggled to climb up a…

A bedroom door bursts open, tiny muscles propelling the wood to describe an arc into the dark, quiet space where I am still sleeping. She patters across the floor, her continuation a quiet contrast against her closing-number entrance. As though counter-weighted with curiosity, my left eyelid lifts open against my will, shining a dim morning…

Erin’s most-requested YouTube video is one from the Disney Sing-along Songs production. In it, a tragically 80’s family follows various costumed Disney characters around Disneyland, singing songs and riding rides. Her favourite is a parade song that goes: “Ti dum. Ti dee. A-teedely dum ti day. We march along And this is the game we…