Staring games

You think you can intimidate me but I can see the ugly inside you. You think your crisp shirt and pressed skirt hide the dark stain but it bleeds through your pores. Your lower jaw juts forward ever so slightly daring me to maintain eye contact, challenging me to look Read more…

“I’ll draw a word”

It was his favorite game the spring he turned five. Every Tuesday while his brother had tennis lessons, Sebastien and his mom played the Chalk Word game. Mariel grabbed the bucket of sidewalk chalk from the trunk and they tried to cover as much of the empty concrete wading pool Read more…

present moment

Tonight was my seven-year old nephew’s last soccer game for the season.  I won’t keep you in suspense; they lost.  Badly.  6-0.  The other team were veterans of the league, they had played together last year, they had ‘plays’.  But before I digress into a rant about details that are Read more…