The Glass Castle

We entered this glass castle together, across the the moat of uncertainty, into a morass of tangled hallways and rooms. The rooms all different shapes and sizes, all made of glass, unique prisms entangling and reflecting the light around us. Attendents conduct us along the pathways. Brief flickers of the…

Snap.

They come to me when I’m in the middle of packing for our camping trip. Close-cropped brown hair and bobbed sandy brown above chocolate eyes and gray-brown galaxy eyes. Wide chocolate eyes and sparkling galaxy eyes above radiant smiles. “Want to take a walk Mama? Want to go to the…

Klaus Daniel, Age 6

Klaus turned six yesterday. I don’t know how that happened. It seems like just yesterday he was a curly-hair toddler, or a chunky baby winning all of our hearts. Somehow now, he’s a tall, skinny child that talks a lot about transformers, builds a lot with Legos, wants to eat…