I love Facebook. I love the immediate response from “friends” I forgot were alive and from those whose minds work in such creative, observant one sentence blasts (Jenny). People, in general, are so clever and inspiring. Facebook makes me love the human race. I also love being able to see what my children…
Author: karensburns
A photograph
I’m taking a creative writing class and I had to write a poem for Tuesday. This is the final draft Still Shot The mesmerizing stillness of a smiling photograph. A bronzed, rugged cowboy atop his barely tamed horse paused on the edge of a cliff. Turned back to smile for…
You Can Lead
Hannah holding Fred. “Doobers.” She’s 14 in this photo, 16 now. Unbelieveably good, too. A miracle. Maybe she was switched at birth. At least that was my dear friend, Terry’s, suggestion. At four, she believed the world was her friend. This terrified me. Even then, she did not judge, hit…
Hamilton High Parking Lot Instructions
7:22 A.M. finds the Hamilton High Parking Lot swarming with hormonal, panicked and nearly late teenage drivers and/or a parent of some kind. Monday through Friday between 7:12 and 7:22 I drop off my two, panicked, nearly late, hormonal teenage daughters. Instructions/thoughts/prayers/fervent hopes I have derived at 7:24 in order…
How to Accept a Gift
He handed me a tiny blue bag. Every girl who has, well, been alive, recognizes this exact shade of Tiffany Blue. My first ever…AND there was a tiny little Tiffany Blue box inside!! A little box!!! Little boxes contain the best things.I didn’t want to open it. It was wrong….
Gift Ideas
“Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13 “Will you help me give life to my Son?” “Of course,” Mary replied. “It will be my honor.” “You will give life to all of your children forever?” asked the Son of…
Time On
I thought it would take less time to raise children as they grew into independent personages. It doesn’t. It only becomes more intellectual. Intellectual pursuits are so time consuming. While time in their younger years was spent bathing, feeding, teaching basic human decency, and just by being present, time together was the…
The Break is Over
Modem and router were incompatible today. So no internet access. Having Qwest forcibly removed from Arizona, if not the planet. It was Qwest’s idea in the first place to have a separate router, which today their “friendly” service rep told me was the problem… Phone battery was dead – could…
Still Relevant After All These Years
Everything I need to know I learned from Simon and Garfunkel. My 15-year-old daughter loves Simon and Garfunkel. If ever someone taught me right from wrong, flighty from deep, it’s Paul and Art. Mostly, I am a much better person and mother for their words and harmonies…maybe 50 Ways to Leave…
God’s Rubber Duckie
I died about 10 years ago. Not for long, but dead enough. One night, about 3 days after sinus surgery, I began to hemorrhage. About midnight I let go of my efforts to control the bleeding and left my immediate location. As I lay my head down on the floor…