Easter weekend I made my favorite icing, tinted it pink and worked with a wide butter knife to spread it across the gentle curves of lemon cupcakes. It was my Grandmother’s recipe, the only icing I’ve ever really liked. The recipe got me...
(This picture was taken by my husband – the night sky over the corn field across the street from us – isn’t he amazing?) When the grief you carry wears your face into a thousand heavy lines, when the sadness feels like a...
Photo Source: HERE. The neighbor’s dog killed our kitten. He’s an old speckled hunting hound who hobbles painfully through a large fenced yard. Our kids feed him handfuls of bone shaped biscuits through the fence and run back and forth calling his name. ...
That night I baked Zucchini bread from her recipe, four small loaves, and lit a green candle in the top of one. “Are we having a party because she died?” my six year old son asks. “We’re lighting a candle to honor her life,” I said. “Oh,” he adds, “that’s what I...
I’ve not often been homesick as an adult; not homesick in a desperate, find-me-a-train-or-bus-or-airplane-out-of-here-or-else-I-will-walk sort of way. But last week I spent six days locked-in at the local behavioral health unit due to severe panic...
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