It’s Val’s 45th birthday today. A friend told me she celebrates her late nephew’s birthday each year with his favorite foods: pizza and beer; and sometimes cupcakes. She asked: What were Val’s favorites? Which made me happy to think about. So here are some. Val loved to eat kale and tempeh; halibut Continue Reading
memories
how to coil a cord
An old friend called and left me a voicemail the other day. He said he’d been coiling up an extension cord and it called Val to mind, because of course he did it the way Val taught him: the way that lets the cord unwind again later without tangling. Val Continue Reading
Dairy Queen
I was sitting in my backyard this afternoon with sore feet and a bittersweet heart, thinking about that one hot day that Val and I put the dog in the car and drove over to Dairy Queen. Or maybe we were coming back from somewhere, because otherwise why would we Continue Reading