The Refusal To Grow Up & Other Anecdotes

Perspective: turn yours off.  Turn it off.  Curiosity. Pick it up and drape it around your shoulders. Hold the drape up to your eyes and look through.  Look. And then question.  Ask.  Explore.  Poke.  Head down every yellow bricked road you see. Pick a red bricked one. Skip along the blue bricked avenue next. Open…

Is it Halloween yet?

Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow,  Turn this stupid fat rat yellow, Follow the instructions,  Mind you, very closely,  Dust the cauldron, light the flames, Clockwise, counter, clockwise again,  Add an ounce of warmth, a pinch of ‘yay’, Half a cup of the mild Midwest breeze, Garnish with a tan, or freckles, as you please, Bring to…

To be a Hufflepuff is to…

Yellows. Orange horizons blending in crimsons and lilacs and the song of the early cicadas. Shirts, large and loose, draping round, hanging to form cushions of preserved warmth that’ll have trouble brushing away the few rebel strands near the eye. Pancakes at 2 in the morning and biscuits for breakfast. Scalding chamomile and chipped, mom-friend…