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Beth Ann Fennelly

With toddlers around, times are always interesting.

Beth Ann Fennelly

Whether you’re explaining where pets go when they die or teaching your child to recycle, your philosophies have ramifications. For the rest of history, echos of your voice will be heard.

Beth Ann Fennelly

When sharing your news, you might come across some disgruntled parent-folk. You know, the kind who snort and say ruefully, “If there’s anyplace you want to travel to, go now.” Don’t let them squelch your joy, dear K: these are the kind of people who never went anywhere before they had babies either.

parenting, travel

Beth Ann Fennelly

When you push your stroller past a group of elderly women, you’ll see in the turning gladness of their bodies a glimpse of the children they had been, turning toward the tin music of the ice cream van.

age, babies, parenthood

Beth Ann Fennelly

She reads his poems gratefully in her small Mississippi town. It’s an undramatic life, yet these past months she seems to have found the intensity he yearns for, This also sounds like bragging, though she doesn’t mean it to. If she could, she’d let him bear her secret. She’d let all great men bear it, for s few hours. Then, when she too it back, they’d remember how it feels to be inhabited.

Beth Ann Fennelly

She reads his poems gratefully in her small Mississippi town. It’s an undramatic life, yet these past months she seems to have found the intensity he yearns for, This also sounds like bragging, though she doesn’t mean it to. If she could, she’d let him bear her secret. She’d let all great men bear it, for s few hours. Then, when she too it back, they’d remember how it feels to be inhabited.