jonathan butz » Family http://jonathan.butz.us good life in the main line Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:57:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Stories http://jonathan.butz.us/2011/05/16/stories/ http://jonathan.butz.us/2011/05/16/stories/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 00:50:23 +0000 Jonathan http://jonathan.butz.us/2011/05/16/stories/ I love the sound of bedtime stories echoing upstairs.

]]> http://jonathan.butz.us/2011/05/16/stories/feed/ 0 Karen http://jonathan.butz.us/2011/01/09/karen/ http://jonathan.butz.us/2011/01/09/karen/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:42:26 +0000 Jonathan http://jonathan.butz.us/?p=492 Sarah and I were watching ‘Parenthood’, sympathizing with the divorced mother struggling to keep her two kids on track.

She grabbed me, suddenly serious and said, “Let’s not do that…for her,” gesturing toward Karen.

While we were talking, Karen had climbed up on the end table by way of a chair and was sitting in front of the lamp, the shade tipped up and framing her head.

She smiled ear to ear and laughed when she saw Sarah and me looking at her together.

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