Tag: parenthood
-
Little Messengers
Jasper toddles quickly down the hall in our second-floor apartment. He stops and listens to a sound: our neighbors’ kid below us, who also runs with stomping feet that send vibrations up the wall from how their steps pound the floorboards. He smiles before continuing his indoor sprint from room to room – a reply…
-
Zinfandel Trail
Family Hike at a Preserve Grand vistas from Zinfandel Trail. J’s babble morphs into a coo that could be an expression of awe. Shifting his weight in the carrier, he eats a midmorning snack and looks behind him at his mom. He seems to like our family hikes. Back under the cover of woods, a…
-
Watching Swallows
It’s the dinner hour of early evening and swallows do aerial maneuvers: they skim above an empty baseball field’s fresh-cut grass in eager pursuit of insects, darting every direction, changing course at impossible angles with such acceleration it baffles the mind how their little bodies can handle it. My toddler raises his hand in greeting…
-
Nourishment
My wife nurses our son on the couch so she can see the hummingbird feeder through the sliding glass door to the balcony. Every few minutes, a shimmer of them arrives in a group to flit and hover about the red plastic tray of nectar. Not realizing there’s room for more than one, they brawl…
From the Firefly Galaxy 