At bedtime, I have to try to be patient with getting my son to be calm enough to go to sleep. With his ADHD, he’s pretty restless when it’s time to get calm. He can’t fall asleep until he does, and it doesn’t help that he’ll ask to play some more or watch a movie.…
Author: J. Parrish Lewis
J. Parrish Lewis was born and raised in Maryland. In his youth there, he and his brother had many adventures in the dogwood forests near his home. His nostalgia for these adventures has strongly influenced his characters, their relationships, and their perspective on the world they inhabit. He moved to California’s coast to earn his degree in communications and now lives with his family in the San Joaquin Valley. Lewis is profoundly deaf and uses American Sign Language to communicate. He enjoys hazelnut coffee, captioned movies, and walking his dog.
(note: I’ve challenged myself to only devote 10 minutes to writing this post, because I edit too much and I’m trying to break the habit) I love video games, but sometimes I wish they didn’t exist. In our house, we’ve always had limits. The kids generally have 15 minutes a week of video games, but…
I did not grow up with religion as part of my life, but with the philosophy of Buddhism. I am thankful for both of those truths, even though now I have not been an atheist for at least fifteen years. I am thankful for Buddhist thought being one of my guiding posts in life. It…
Present By J. Parrish Lewis I drove into sunlight 63 miles an hour the Sun’s stare skipped across the heavens — a sharp pebble across the stream — godrays knowing as if knowing and illumination were one and the same I had to shield my eyes and pull down the visor but there’s no hiding…
Thunder crashed. Wind lamented its life with haunted howls. Cats screeched or perhaps meowed. I heard none of this, of course, but it happened. Lightning flashes lit up the frame of the front door. The doorknob turned. Slowly, steadily, ever so mercilessly. From across the room, sitting in my Daddy chair, I watched. The lights…
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Moving Boxes
We recently moved to a new home, which meant we were in possession of boxes upon boxes upon boxes. We started out at the old house with everything (well, about half of it mostly everything) packed neatly into boxes. We forked over extra to have professional movers for a few hours, but amazingly we had much…
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Cloud 9 With Chance of Bunnies
Tipped my head in Ladybug’s direction, talking to my wife. “She said earlier today, ‘when we move to our new house can we pleaaaaase have a compost?’” The eavesdropping Ladybug jumped forward and launched into her reasons why she wants a compost, which is admittedly fantastic and shows she’s a better environmentalist than I am.…
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Unidentified Flying Orange
Went to Farmers’ market this morning, with the kiddos in tow. Got some leeks, Romaine, free range eggs -sadly, the white- and a trio of Greek delicacies including the necessary dolmas. Out of nowhere, a large orange flew at my head, smacking me right in the middle of my forehead. Then it hovered in mid-air,…
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The Goblin Road available for purchase
I have decided, after a lot of thought, to make The Goblin Road available for purchase again through Createspace.com and Amazon. Perhaps one day, I’ll find a more permanent home for this novel. It’s my first (ahem, complete) novel, so it has a cozy little nook in my brain. Ouch. If you want a paperback,…