“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.”
~Mahatma Gandhi
I walk into one room, where the girl breathes thickly, warmed beneath a blanket crafted in love. Face turned, hands clasped, hair spread and knotted, she is […]
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I have always kissed my kids minor bumps and bruises until they were old enough to not need it. So often a kiss was all that it took for the owie to go magically away. There are scrapes that kisses can’t anesthetize. But, for the first few years of their lives, my […]
Tags: Family
Expecting…
Other parents expect I must have wanted to have children by birth and failed.
Our adoption agency expects I have enough free time to write the follow-up reports on our kids with only a week’s notice.
Our daughter’s soccer coach expects I know all about soccer, including where the playing fields are and how to convince a […]
September is as natural a month as January for making resolutions. Summer wraps itself up and the sun is softened by cooler mornings and the rumbling bus pulls to the stop and whisks the school-aged Punks away for hours of “reading streets” and “everyday math.”
And Mom walks back to the house holding […]
We arrived at my brother’s house at midnight tonight, which in your time is actually last night. I often choose to drive in the wee hours if I’m solo parenting the kids for a trip. They fall asleep in the car and usually transfer pretty easily when we arrive at our destination, meaning there is […]
