life

yet…part 1

She woke up around 1:30am with her usual 6am greeting of “I’m awake!” She often has other things to say, too, but this morning she kept it simple. Poor thing …

all my children

i want to carry all my children on my back and in my arms i want to smell their all-day-playing sunscreened heads then watch them as they drift away down …

Suffragette Salad?

I used what was part bathroon, part hallway then sat down in a chair there. The door opened a bit later and in walked a young woman from Mauritius. She’d …

All This. 

As the sun sets and our little one sleeps in her new “big girl bed,” I’m finding myself reflective and very grateful.  I’m looking out our back yard and thinking, …

fame & faithfulness

Wrote this draft in February 2015. Just came across it. Quite fitting this week.  — i wanted to be big time, bigger than Michael Jackson, until i realized that an …