Margaret
deferred /d-fûrd/ Put off (an action or event) to a later time; postpone Very early on Sunday mornings, when the air is new, I like to sit out on my back porch and watch as the late eve subsides to the early dawn. All the alley cats begin to turn in their late night howl [...]
Smooth Sadie
resilience \ri-ˈzil-yən(t)s\ an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change Sadie is one of my favorite neighbors. I usually see her in the late afternoons when I come home from work. Either with her hair all wrapped in a scarf, or cascading in her face and resting on her shoulders, always with a [...]
Sophie
empathy /ˈempəTHē/ The ability to understand and share the feelings of another. I remember Sophie being the most popular girl in school, dating the most handsome guy in the world, so I thought at the time. I also remembered her bullying me at the lockers and in the gym. She had asked me for a [...]
Mia
dis·place /disˈplās/ cause (something) to move from its proper or usual place I remember Mia being tall—taller than the other girls in our high school class. She was also very thin, almost fragile. Even her hair was as tall as she—not tall, exactly, but almost as long as her, full of body. It also seemed [...]
Mardi Gras, 2010
Mardi Gras 2010 is pt 3 of the “Still Sitting” series regarding my Mardi Gras experience in New Orleans.















