Loud cracking sounds startle me from my sleep. With the wars in the middle east, I roll my head over as thoughts already consume me, “What was that?” I ask sleeping husband. “Thunder and lightening”, he whispers. And with Israel having no peace, and Russia domineering Ukraine, it can be hard not to think the wars […]
“We have just witnessed a miracle.” House silent. The one who placed this endless circle on my finger twenty-two years ago, stares up with me at the draping canopy from our king sized bed. “I know.” He whispers back. The kids just placed in bed. And while some miracles must be hunted down, dug up, searched […]
Dear Daughter, You float in high heels, person to person. You don’t see me watching….but I notice you; the one so poised, so soft and strong, so full of hope, so unafraid of tackling all of who you are….with no regrets… How bravely you find your own wings in a world bent on clipping, stiffling, chaining […]
Ever had that kind of day where kids won’t stop crying and you just want to crawl back into bed, throw the covers over your head, and press an imaginary button on your alarm clock that says, “Turn back time”? Motherhood is under a holocaust. There is a real life, in your face assault against […]
I cried myself to sleep last night. She turned eighteen. All my attempt to bottle up that infant staring the world straight in the face….futile. I thought I could stop time. I thought I was God. Confining that two foot, little girl in a flowing dress,and sparkly shoes in the crevasses of my mind. But that […]
She swooped the roller across her lime green walls. And once where there was bright colors. Black was all I saw. Covering like the sorrow wallowing from my heart. What happened to my little girl? Why did she want black walls? What had I done wrong in this life to make my sparkles loving, pink, tiara […]