july 4th Archives - Elephants Never

Fireworks

Andre — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 13:44:36 +0000

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

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For the Love of Lice

Andre — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 09:30:22 +0000

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

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July 4th

Andre — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 14:33:51 +0000

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

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