God of the summer rain, send us each a moment of shaking laughter or tears to crack open the dry, barren land of our hopes deferred. This post is linked with dVerse Poet’s...
The twins ran to the kitchen shouting, “Mow! Mow!” and I followed to confirm the sighting. For months now they’ve named and claimed every “mower” they see as we drive or walk through town. Every lawn mower,...
Daughter At seven, she is like the first green shoot of spring, full of the promise of what’s to come. This post is linked with Five Minute Friday on the prompt, “She.” Click over to read more five minute posts...
“We’re thinking about having another baby,” I said, keeping my hands at two and four on the steering wheel and glancing over at my mother who sat holding her purse in the passenger seat. We were a little over a month into her diagnosis and several weeks into...
When we came for a viewing of the house we live in now, my husband and I were like a pair of young love-birds looking for a place to nest, though we wouldn’t have said it in as many words. After guiding us through the house from bottom to top, the homeowner...
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