jude, the conversationalist
as i was unloading the car outside of my office, jude saw a little boy sitting down on a bench on the sidewalk and went over and sat next to him. i heard their whole conversation. i’m embellishing...
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I remember when my father used to trim my fingernails it felt like he was cutting them down to the bone. “So we don’t have to do it that often,” he said. He smelled like cigarettes and cologne. I was...
View Articlesecrets of the five year-old mind…REVEALED
I thought it would start out a certain way. That’s the way it goes – you scenario-ize this sort of thing, but it never really happens exactly the way you imagined or planned it. I thought the big...
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jude: dava, did you have a bad dream? dava: uh-huh. jude: was it a nightmare, or a skeleton? dava: no, it wasn’t a nightmare. it was just unpleasant. jude: oh. was it a skeleton? that was...
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“I’m not jokin’,” said the brown-haired kindergarten boy. My son, removing his snow clothes, looked over. “You’re not jokin’ about what, Porter?” The boy blinked. “…I’m not jokin’,” he said again....
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“The more the water runs, the more bubbles you’ll get in the bathtub.” – Jude, age 6
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My son brings home a cookie he made at school that looks like it fell off a truck. It’s supposed to be for Christmas, I think, because the white frosting and red sprinkles have glommed together in a...
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