The Salad Bar of Life

“Have I told you my story?” my mother asks me as we walk from Jason’s Deli to her white spaceship-like minivan.
Her voice is soft and excited and shy. I am my mother’s youngest daughter. I am graduating college in two weeks. She will cry. She will say, My baby is grown now.
When I graduated from [...]

Youth Joy

While sitting with their parents, licking spoons full of cold gelato, two young girls catch a glimpse of the dogs on the wooden deck outside the yuppie coffeeshop.
The sisters trot outside, their pink, red and frilly dresses bouncing with their steps. Once near the two dogs, they slow down and hesitate. One girl holds out [...]