I’m going up, locked in at waist and chest, but there’s enough space between the gulf that my hipbones protrude from and protection that I’m not safe. I know this. Still, I can’t help but wonder at the blueness that surrounds me. The single seagull, swooping, as if in slow-mo, calling someone far away. He’s [...]
I can over-simplify, and under-explain, but completely qualify my fears as Zoë’s mother into two distinct forms: I worry that I will box her into being something; I worry that I will fight so hard against boxing her in, I veer too far to the other side. Take swimming. Today was her first lesson, ever. [...]
You know when you find a killer sale, and you totally stock up on stuff, thinking you’re being proactive, but then you soon realize that you either: a) already had stocked up on the thing you were just stocking up on, or b) needed the thing you were stocking up on, so it’s not so [...]