by Elizabeth Williams I sit, staring at my computer screen. Upstairs, my 10-year-old daughter shrieks, “I hate you!” Her brother rumbles a reply. He’s 13, and his newly deep voice still surprises me.She shrieks again. School is cancelled because of snow, my husband is out of town, and I’m the lucky one who works from […]
You can’t witness pure, unadulterated, innocent joy without some of the sparkle lightening your own load. It had been a long winter of non-stop nausea, but it wasn’t until the fifth month of chemo that I actually became sick. My white blood cells were depleted, I had a low-grade fever, and the doctors were worried. […]
My father built the bench when my husband and I bought our first house. He had some oak left from a project, and put the bench together quickly. Too quickly, he always said: One board on the seat stuck up slightly at one end. The first person who sat on the bench would sit on […]
