CRASH
Dear Visitors to Eager Reader Press,
My website crashed at the beginning of the New Year! In an effort to resurrect it, my computer expert, James, updated the Divi theme that was used to build it. Now the original fourteen pages are mostly intact, but the Archives and Categories aren’t…
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Dear friends and family,
It’s hard to know how, this year, to start a Christmas letter. Last year I sent out a card with a cartoon Santa, his bag full, not of presents but of doves. This card that I first sketched out many years prior…
CATEGORIES
To read: *10* Children’s Stories…
To do: Fun Activities with Kids…
To see: Doll Clothes…
To visit: Neighborhood Gardens…
Or survey Berkeley Houses…
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ARIELLE’S DOLLHOUSE
I just realized that my category Fun Activities, while it included two pictures of my “Christmas dollhouse,” didn’t include one of the entire original dollhouse I created for Arielle. When she was two, after Michael’s birth, I used to visit her…
NEPENTHE
Now the boat plows on—the ocean heaving like a breast laboring for breath—
a black flag beating from its bow, past cliff sides dotted with green, shrubs like tumbleweeds blown down from above.
Beyond, the city skyline—skyscrapers sheered off by mist…
DAMAGED
Three years had passed, since I’d seen Arlen. Then one night, I got a call from her telling me Harry was in the intensive care unit at Kaiser in critical condition. I sped over to the hospital, where she drew me into a foyer to tell what had happened.
Harry hadn’t gotten the teaching post…