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I will be just fine if I never see or hear the phrase “silver lining” again for the rest of my days, but the truth is that it’s been wonderful to have her home, to introduce her to movies like Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Valley Girl, let her choose the restaurant for our weekly take-out, watch her dance with her sister in the kitchen and eavesdrop (just a little) on hours-long Facetime calls with her new friends. More than anything, I’m melancholy at the thought that nothing will be easy for her, not like it was her freshman year when kids finished each other’s meals (quite literally — R. I.P. to the Scrounge Table, a Reed College tradition) and piled on top of one another in modern dance. I’m dreading how much different things will be, the parties that won’t happen, the traditions we can’t continue. I know we’ll find new ways to celebrate each other, and that I’ll see reminders pop up next year on my Facebook memories, like the porch portrait our friend Rick D’Elia took this spring.

Desperate times mean it’s time to dance — at least, that’s how it’s been in our house this spring. Sophie’s working toward her goal of becoming a dance teacher by offering her first-ever dance class! On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 3:30 pm PST, you can join her virtual class via Zoom. Wear comfy clothes and feel free to drop in

Shoo Flies is Bar Flies minus the drinks, plus a group of teens writing and performing their stories. How the words can’t talk to yourself use the mind to you and the world behind you and have the law of words to yourself and how the life comes and goes and the law how the people say words in the law of words when you think the law of words you have the mind set in the future and detour has words that can be good Rent and words in the show can be risky in the laws of words can be hard for people with down syndrome to be thoughtful to yourself and other people can hear the air of words they listen to the laws of words and how they listen to it how they think to yourself confidence to the mind these words can be bad what i think what is in my head it hurts what is this pain in my body

Sophie is considering community college in metro Phoenix, or maybe college in a “funky town,” as she puts it, with the ultimate goal of being a dance teacher like her grandmother. he’s worked his butt off as news editor of Phoenix New Times, also serving a stint as interim editor, and he and his team have broken several important stories about the environment, crime and local politics. I was lucky enough to be offered a column at PHOENIX magazine, the local city monthly, and I’ve tackled all sorts of subjects so far in Raising Phoenix, including my changing views of the city, attempts at gardening and even Annabelle’s departure for college. I managed to get published in a couple of bucket list places, like Lit Hub and the parenting sections of the Washington Post and New York Times, and did my first radio feature for KJZZ, the NPR member station in Phoenix.