We interrupt the Hometown Stories series to bring you these current events.Since we arrived back in California, the children have been trying to kill me. Kyle is more the innocent bystander, or the complicit-by-nonaction sidekick. It's Brady who masterminds this operation, with … [Read more...]

As usual, when Kyle spends a bunch of time with my father, his language skills increase. He's been getting better at pronouncing words that he has had difficulty with in the past, like "galaxy."We were all driving from one place to another in the minivan my parents rented for us … [Read more...]

Someone else's wedding is not about me, I know. I kept telling myself that as the days before Laura's wedding reception rolled on. But I still wanted to make a good impression. After all, we were getting a new family, and none of my family had seen me since before I had the baby. … [Read more...]

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He lived across the street but went to a different high school. I used to peek out the window looking for him, living for sightings of him, replaying each encounter and looking for hidden meanings. I memorized the smell of the laundry detergent in his clothes. He taught me how to … [Read more...]