Bee Please

My daughter turned thirteen earlier this month. On her birthday, when I was dropping her off at school, she begged me to go home. She didn’t...

  Saturday morning, I was making Kiki breakfast. I stood at the stove, moving the scrambled eggs in the pan, and looked at a plate of peanut...

  I saw a deodorant commercial. This is a multipurpose deodorant, I learned as the lady talked about her “crotch smell.” When she said crotc...

  I was in Geoffrey’s room. We were in his bed reading. I insisted he listen to me read a Mary Oliver poem. As I read the end, a tear trickl...

  Last night was Kiki’s dance recital, a three-hour show where her two-minute dance was two hours and twenty minutes in. She decided to take...

  I was searching my mom’s bookcase for a new read. It was a trip down memory lane, so many books I abandoned on one of the moves I made in ...