Fireworks

by Christine Taylor Some nights we sit up peer at the sky through the blinds we don’t know if what we hear   is what we think we hear:      thunder               construction          fireworks   bullets. I remind him   today is June 14, Flag Day certainly a cause for celebration he sets his beer bottle   on the Read More

For the Love of Lice

by Amy Alexander When it comes to terrible things that adults imagine happening to children – drownings, kidnappings, being burnt on stoves, toppling headlong into Rubbermaid tubs and not being able to escape, crashing into semis in forward-facing, failing child seats, falling off of cliffs at The Grand Canyon, being sucked into the ocean by riptides, placing dry cleaning bags Read More

July 4th

Happy July 4th to all the people and pachyderms of the United States of America! We don’t often feel united these days, and protests seem to happen more than parades. Indeed, to find a song that really moves my patriotism, I look to a musical number from the 1940s. Elephants never admit, but that image of America as savior, guiding Read More