by admin | Oct 9, 2021 | a mom's life, poems, reflections
How is it that I studied my children at every age,drank in their constant remaking,yet missed my own?Meanwhile, I too was being remadewith my own fleeting epochs. Fresh faced, dewy eyed twentiesWriting…directing…starring inthe Movie of My LifeNo hurdle too...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | a mom's life
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of MOPS Magazine. Saddled with an English–major mother, my kids couldn’t escape learning the three types of irony at an early age. On family movie nights, it wasn’t unusual to hear a small voice pipe...
by admin | Feb 1, 2021 | a mom's life, marriage, reflections
Milestones matter. As the designated Keeper of the Firsts and the Lasts in my family, I love reflecting on our journey, remembering what God has brought us through. Five years ago, I found a lump in my neck. I found it and promptly forgot about it because I...
by admin | Sep 3, 2020 | a mom's life, education
Dear Fall Self at the start of September, Welcome to the next chapter of your life. Unwritten but much anticipated, this month promises to be full of firsts and good intentions, some of which you will actually carry out. You will mean to spend focused time with your...
by admin | May 4, 2020 | a mom's life, poems
I wrote this poem five years ago and reworked it recently. Now, of course, we all know that four weeks is nothing. It’s not even half the time we’ve been social distancing. So take this poem with a grain of salt. I didn’t know any better. Four weeks inIf only I had...
by admin | May 2, 2020 | a mom's life, education, poems
She sits at the kitchen tabledutifully diagramming sentences inscrutable indirect objects and those pesky prepositions(or are they adverbs?) But I am diagrammingthe way the light glints in her hairas she carefully shapes cursive,brow furrowedbut eyes darting to...
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