Goings On
I took a week off from real life. I wandered up and down the bank of the Frio River like a wanderer come home, stepping on the same ground I visit every year. I remembered a game I made up when I was very young: trying to walk as far as possible without touching anything [...]
Tonight, Alan was looking through a “Search and Find” (think I-SPY) book with me. “I found a hole. Oh wait, no, that’s a puddle.” “That’s a giraffe. It’s supposed to be at the zoo. But it’s not. I wonder how we can get it to the zoo?” “Why is that girl standing up?” “I found [...]
Emily and I spent a very diverting afternoon sewing miniature owls and listening to nearly every song ever released by Owl City. The owls’ names are, in no particular order, Mr. Popper, Ruth, Romeo, Owlfred, Wimberley, and Ludwig. If you can gue…
I have a blast at tournaments. Every time. So when I walked onto the airplane bound for Boston, I was expecting to enjoy the experience thoroughly. Nationals was my last tournament, after all, and I knew it would have to be fantastic. But little did I expect the deluge of blessings and joy that hit [...]
“The sky is turning into popcorn! Come look!”, chattered Anna as she sprang away from the window. “Cumulonimbus,” I said, imitating the inflection of Russel from Pixar’s “Up”. When a mass begins to grow in the corner of your bigger-than-real-life Texas skyline, and mutates into fantastic shapes accented by the setting sun… everyone is at [...]
