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Posts Tagged ‘mother’
Monday Night is Video Night. 1.4.2010.
Posted in video, tagged botanic gardens, brother, chicago, father, flowers, mother, snow, video on January 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Peach pickin’ kisses.
Posted in my life, tagged brother, mother, whitney on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Triple Shot.
Posted in Triple Shots, tagged café, Carmina Burana, college, fat, mother, tea on May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Earlier today, I sat at a table at the café right down the street. At the table next to me a mother was reading the newspaper as her daughter, I’d age her at about six, was swinging her legs, kicking her mom’s chair. Her mom didn’t react. The girl said, “Mommy, what is air made [...]
Triple Shot.
Posted in Triple Shots, tagged burritos, mid-life crises, money, mother, sunburn, walt whitman on May 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Jackie used to always say that her mom would kill her if she got sunburnt and I thought it was cute until no, I found out it was funny because her mom was dead. ——- The difference with a mid-life crisis is that you have money. I have crises of similar proportions and all it means is [...]
The Hunt. The Path.
Posted in short shorts, tagged brother, dogs, father, fetch, indians, leaves, moment, mother on March 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »
When the boy would have a nightmare, his father would wake just before his hand reached the doorknob. The boy would leave his brother sleeping soundly in their shared room, make his way up the stairs, stepping in the spots of the floor he knew not to creak, except for one, which he would hit [...]
Chicago is the City of Big Shoulders
Posted in favorites, short shorts, tagged apartment, ayurveda, bum, cory, mother, New York on January 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In the past five years, my mother has had both knees replaced and thwarted two different cancers. When she comes to visit me, she does not get a room. She brings a sleeping bag. This is something I will always brag about. My mother likes to take me grocery shopping. [...]
