Posted in Parenting Tweets, Wisdom of Youth

Sick Day

Thanks be to rash-faced kids who say COME OUTSIDE so that you get to be the one who makes first tracks on the sledding hill with boot-print flowers~ and later plop down under a solar-drenched sky for a sweet, snow-angel Savasana while pick-ups bounce by on mud-puddled roads.

K. Salasin

Posted in Insight, Parenting Tweets

Life, Looking In

There is such beauty when I look out my window

to the snowy evergreen landscape,

but when I head outside

and take a look “in”,

I see the poetry of

a pair of mittens hanging by the fire,

a tea cup by the stove

and my boys at the table.


Writing is my act

of looking

in.

K. Salasin

Posted in Parenting Tweets

Car Talk

Why do we have belly buttons?

What about the very first person,

Did they have a belly button?

(Aidan, age 9)