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Ode on a Big Red Ball

(I recently purchase a large red fitness ball to sit on, to encourage my baby to be in an anterior position, to improve my posture, and for possible use in labor.)

THOU still unpopped bride of bounciness,   Thou foster-child of Cramp and slow Time, Target salesman, who canst thus express   […]

The explorer

Aspens and evergreens grew thick to the west of my uncle’s Blue Mesa cabin. The forest floor buzzed with insects hunkered underneath fallen pine needles. Logs, rocks, stumps, chipmunks, swooping camp-robbing birds, and opinionated ravens thickened as my sister and I walked deeper into the wall of green and gold.

“Don’t go too far!” […]

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You […]