#34

We made a good team.  The pile was infested and had to be moved away from the house.  It was the first job he was big enough to really help me with.  Bittersweet.  

#28

When she said she wanted to quit her job and go back to school, it scared me to death.  But, somehow the money was just there through it all.  Now I can't imagine her as anything but a librarian. 

#14

Our sloped driveway is not the best place for a toddler to learn how to ride a tricycle.  He managed, though, with only minor scrapes and that one time he careened into the shed. 

#10

Once, a student gave me a crudely built coil pot she had made in ceramics class.  She had painted a stylized skeleton on one side and the name "Frank" on the other.  She gave no explanation.  I didn't need one.  From that point on, all decorative skeletons would be known as "Frank."  I give you "Frank, reclining."