LIFE IS SHORT | Autobiography as Haiku
LIFE IS SHORT | Autobiography as Haiku
Sunday, April 8, 2007; Page D01
Cowboys and Indians.
Cops and robbers.
A typical afternoon
Growing up at White Cliff
With my brother.
  (Rebecca D'Angelo - Rebecca D'angelo) |
He was my best friend.
He was my big brother.
He was the cowboy.
I was the Indian.
He always played
The bad guy.
The robber.
But now there is
A different robber:
College.
And I, the cop,
Am left
An only child
To play by myself.
Amy Cutler
North Potomac
If I'm stressed I turn to animals. When I had a tooth yanked at 6, I got tetra fish and was mesmerized for weeks. When my parents split when I was 10, I got two shiny turtles and named them after my mom and dad. When I wasn't good enough to make first clarinet in middle school, I got a yellow parakeet who tweeted with me anyway. Now that I'm much older and my daughter is about to head off to college, I suddenly find myself with four horses, three terriers and a white-tailed bunny. No empty nest for me.
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| (Nikki Kahn - The Washington Post) |
Chevy Chase
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