As promised, here’s the next installment of Snowflakes In Autumn. I’m posting Chapter Five in two parts this week, although the division of this one runs a bit longer in the second half than the first. Today’s installment isn’t exactly brief, but rest assured you’ll get a little more meat on the bone when Thursday rolls around. Don’t forget to click the Donate button either in my sidebar or at the bottom...

Surprise! I’m posting Chapter Four of Snowflakes In Autumn today, ahead of schedule and in its entirety. I’m not doing this to screw with you in some bizarre and cruel eternal modification of the schedule, but because I’m in a rather gloomy place right now and I don’t trust myself to not write anything I won’t regret later. Brittany and I are, once again, experiencing difficulties with Trey’s dad. Since...

Today I conclude the third chapter of Snowflakes In Autumn. Tomorrow, I’ll post the essay I’d originally scheduled for Wednesday but had to postpone due to wanting every minute I could get with Trey before he left for his dad’s summer visitation. It was important to squeeze in every second we could with our little guy before he left home, for unfortunate reasons I’ll elaborate on in Friday’s essay. As for...

Sorry, gang. I’m upsetting the schedule’s apple cart today, but it can’t be helped. Trey’s last day home has proven very busy, and I’m just not ready for it to end. And, since any time I would otherwise spend sitting at the computer pecking out an essay for your reading pleasure today is time that I wouldn’t be spending with my little boy before he goes away to his dad’s for a month, I’m...

Before continuing with the latest installment of Snowflakes In Autumn, I thought I’d take a minute to whine about how miserable it is to know that we’ll soon be without Trey for an enormous swath of time while he’s away for his dad’s summer visitation. It’s not that I don’t think he’ll have a good time at his dad’s or anything; I know he’s going to have fun visiting family in Colorado....