Time spent in our gardens is among my greatest joys. Earlier this spring, I marveled at how our shade garden had re-emerged from the depths of winter, shaking off its blanket of dead leaves as newly awakening hostas unfurled platter-sized leaves. By June, their collective canopy of elephantine leaves creates a sanctuary of coolness in green. Arching berry canes planted last year in the meadow garden were divided and replanted, expanding the patch from one row to three. The asparagus bed was weeded thoroughly, making way for this year's emergent crop of spears.
Tonight the wind blows in tantrums, and the leaves collide and scatter across the deck. Alone on this uneasy night, I walk through the house and switch on lights. I open the door to the spare bedroom, the room that once belonged to my son, and there, in the light of the moon, the little wooden rocker sits empty. Gold plates glint on the back of the cherry wood where I have affixed these reminders: Jeff, 1958; Zach, 1983; Annie, 1996. I can barely remember the perfect truth of this, but I think the rocker originally belonged to Jeff, my brother, the first child I loved and "mothered." By the time Jeff was born, his mother, my mother, was perpetually tired and frazzled, and so I strolled him about, lugged him around in a wagon, dressed him in doll clothes and wrapped him in ketchup-soaked...
The "Sex and the City" girls are done, and now Sunday night belongs, again, to the boys. Specifically Tony Soprano and his lovable crew down at the Bada-Bing, right? Maybe. Maybe not.
RIVERTON -- Two groups of boys in a difficult situation came together Friday night to do one of the few things that makes them forget about the trouble that's plagued both Hillcrest and Riverton football teams this week. It hurts even more now that they walked out on us," said Hillcrest receiver Payden Dallimore of the 22 players who skipped practice on Tuesday to protest the head coach and were kicked off the team Friday. "It hurts that they're willing to let us lose 56- 14.
Ephraim Frisch, a Reform rabbi at San Antonio's temple Beth-El from 1923-1942, was labeled a radical by conservatives and extremists in reaction to growing anti-Semitism and New Deal liberalism. His experiences in defending Darwinism, support of black educators and public chastisements of San Antonio's treatment of minority citizens were representative of national issues faced by many Reform rabbis.
RIVERTON -- Two groups of boys in a difficult situation came together Friday night to do one of the few things that makes them forget about the trouble that's plagued both Hillcrest and Riverton football teams this week. It hurts even more now that they walked out on us," said Hillcrest receiver Payden Dallimore of the 22 players who skipped practice on Tuesday to protest the head coach and were permanently kicked off the team Friday. "It hurts that they're willing to let us lose 56-14.
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