population explosion. I am writing to report that Easter Bunnies have over run my basement storage due to their prolific reproductive habits. I went down there to see if I could find an intact basket or four, and a bag of that shredded, static filled Easter grass. I grappled blindly for the pull-chain light and… Continue reading Easter Bunny
You know you are a mother when: *the kids ask you what animal the meat came from at dinner * you have a rash on your face and you don’t see it because the only time see yourself is when you are washing the mirror in the bathroom *your pulse races when you open… Continue reading Motherhood
When I dream, I am young enough to have fun. I can feel the tingle in my stomach while swinging high on a swing, or pretending to saddle up a horse waiting for me, and my friends as well, all imaginary. We galluped on these “horses” all over the playground. Or, I am running through… Continue reading Dream On
We have had cats all of our marriage. My husband and I watched one napping on a chair. Cat naps are the rule around here, rare is the time that all three are running on all cylinders. That’s mealtime, and night. The rest of the time is chill. I have to see a therapist and… Continue reading Catatonic
LIGHT. My dad loved to soak up sunshine, like a lizard on a hot rock. My mother always had at least two chores for him to do before he could take it easy in the sun. He watched the weather on the news at eleven p.m. to plan out his chances of seeing sunshine. Winter,… Continue reading Strange and Eerie
I have spent hours and hours, days, and months waiting for a variety of events good and bad throughout my life. There is telephone waiting, with or without Muzak piped into the wait, and cryptic messages for distracting the person who is waiting. Those are the “La di da, press 1, press 2, 3 etcetera.… Continue reading Waiting
This story is about mathematics and Valentine’s Day. It is a saga of my youth as I look back at it, much older and a little bit wiser. I taught Kindergarten. Back in those days, Kindergarten was half a day for each session. I had 32 kids in each. The first year of teaching was… Continue reading Valentine’s Day
and other small mammals. I taught Kindergarten with fish in an aquarium, a turtle, a hedgehog, a free roaming hare, as well as two gerbils. The gerbils slept all day. The whole school day was their snooze time. But, at night I realized that they knew how to open the top of their cage and… Continue reading Talking About Gerbils
It is cold and flu season. I remember my first year of teaching kindergarten some yumpty- yump years ago. The children were coming into the classroom from the frosty bus. One of them, a boy, threw up without warning as he reached the threshold of my classroom. I grabbed his arm to keep him from… Continue reading Ad Nauseum
I do not have writer’s block, but I do have a writer’s cat. She is a two year old calico cat named Penelope. When I sit at my desk and start to write the cat hurries up onto my desk to rest against the monitor and the keyboard. Oops, here she comes. She is here… Continue reading The Cat and I
Sharon Clemons 