I have had this picture in my mind for years and years. I am sitting on a hardwood floor, one leg bent up to my chest while the other leg extends in front. I am lacing on a pair of shoes with great determination; tying them tighter than tight, because it’s as if they come…
We are always on the quest for fun and unique books. It had been a dry spell this summer. Stacks and stacks checked out from the library and nothing truly worth writing about beyond Dr. Seuss books (which are fun and unique, but most people know this already). So when we found two great books…
As I sit here, curled in a seat for many more hours, I am comforted by the chubby, small, hand tracing my fingers as the car’s rhythmic movement lulls sleepiness into her body. She is engulfed by soft purple fleece jammies and grip-equipped feeties beckoning her to give-in to the rest so needed after a…
“Mom! Mom!” “I can’t hear you with the shower running in my ears…” “MOM! The kitchen is smoking!” I go running, barely getting a towel across my six month belly, tearing down the hallway soaking wet with soap in my hair expecting all the burners to be turned on and catching things on fire like…
Between the woods the afternoon Its fallen in a golden swoon, The sun looks down from quiet skies To where a quiet water lies, And silent trees stoop down to the trees. And there I saw a white swan make Another white swan in the lake; And, breast to breast, both motionless, They waited for…