parent Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/parent/ Trunkated tales, rumbling rhymes, and elephant art Sun, 21 Jul 2019 01:57:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/elephantsnever.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-winter-logo-2019-20.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 parent Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/parent/ 32 32 135387410 The Sky Is Also Blue https://elephantsnever.com/the-sky-is-also-blue/ https://elephantsnever.com/the-sky-is-also-blue/#respond Mon, 22 Jul 2019 09:00:20 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1761 by Toni G. There’s a young lady in the corner, not so far from the dance floor, lost in the fantasy of what her first dance should be like and with whom. She waits with her head slightly bowed. Insecurity creates beads of sweat on her perfectly scrubbed and powdered skin. She looks down pretending to admire her new gown, Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/the-sky-is-also-blue/feed/ 0 1761 Your Arms Close Around Me https://elephantsnever.com/your-arms-close-around-me/ https://elephantsnever.com/your-arms-close-around-me/#respond Thu, 04 Oct 2018 11:00:37 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1119 by J. Bradley Mitch asks mom what animal she’d want to be and I punch him in the arm for asking. The last thing mom needs right now is to think about being in a body other than her own. Mom answers though by shifting her body into a lime green raccoon. Why a raccoon, I ask. On our honeymoon, Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/your-arms-close-around-me/feed/ 0 1119 Elephants Never Infest, Louse https://elephantsnever.com/elephants-never-infest-louse/ https://elephantsnever.com/elephants-never-infest-louse/#respond Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:41:16 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1036 “Well, the bad news is that you’ve definitely got a Pediculus pachydermis – elephant louse.” “Yuck, totally gross, like it has some weird tentacle thing hanging off the front!” “Yes, you’ve found its trunk. On the plus side, once we remove the louse, you shouldn’t get a recurrence. Elephants never infest.” Don’t forget to read “For the Love of Lice” Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/elephants-never-infest-louse/feed/ 0 1036 For the Love of Lice https://elephantsnever.com/love-of-lice/ https://elephantsnever.com/love-of-lice/#respond Sun, 26 Aug 2018 09:30:22 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1029 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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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/love-of-lice/feed/ 0 1029 Leaving for College https://elephantsnever.com/leaving-for-college/ https://elephantsnever.com/leaving-for-college/#respond Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:30:02 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=1021 My only daughter is leaving for her 1st year of college… By Kim Luxoro Tonight when you were at work, Taylor, I walked by your bedroom. From the hallway I saw the usual dirty (and quite possibly clean) clothes on the floor, the laundry baskets full of clean clothes, empty shopping bags from Victoria’s Secret, and that overflowing garbage can. Read More

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