Sam, a student who works as a barista in the early mornings, always has a wise perspective and a smile. The Stranger: Sam The Word: Clover The poem I wrote: Summer music hides in the leaves,each song like a treed animal:below, big kids on scooterswith lollipops in their cheeks.I find in the grass a four-leaf cloverbut…
Articles from March 2019
The word: Bonita
I was shopping for ingredients for a soup when Gabi and I stopped what we were doing and had a conversation: a moment, a margin, in an otherwise full-page day. The Stranger: Gabi The Word: Bonita The poem I wrote: It is a beautiful song,and we don’t needto be tied to a mastto hear it. Bonita,this day…
The word: Snow
It had been a decade since I had skied, and in an effort to build up my confidence via the “sink or swim” method, I decided to take the kids skiing by myself. After school, we gathered snacks, warm clothes, and our ski bibs and jackets. We needed skis, so we stopped by the rental…
The word: Lucky
In Austin, before a family dinner, my kids and I decided to putter around a children’s museum called The Thinkery. We forgot our membership card—brilliant side-note fact: an Idaho Discovery Center membership gets you into nearly any other children’s museum in the country—and my son said, “That is so unlucky!” Kassie took our word that…