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It shouldn’t feel like such a big deal, but the weight is so heavy. The sadness rolls in like a rushing river and the finality is like a death. The necessity of the surgery is pitted against the reality that never again will a little life live inside my body. There’s grief that needs to be felt and lamenting that…
Continue readingDown a long dirt road, in the middle of nowhere, sat a single wide mobile home. The walls were paper-thin and the windows howled as the wind penetrated every nook and cranny. Heated by a wood stove, the warmth struggled to make its way throughout the house. Around the holidays, the balance of providing essentials such as heat, food,…
Continue readingMy teenage son and I stand in the seemingly endless line at the DMV. I loathe this place; the lines, the inefficient way it’s run (by no fault of the actual employees) and the long, long, long wait just drives me nuts. I hate feeling like I’m wasting time. When our number is finally called, I march over to my appointed…
Continue readingMy heart pounding, my mind racing, and my body trembling — I needed to get to my girl. I knew this might be the last… The last time I’d see her sweet face, touch her soft skin or hold her in my arms. “Oh Lord, I don’t know if I can do this!” Moments earlier, my ten-year-old son came running…
Continue readingSitting on the floor, playing with his toys, my three-year-old makes the fiercest noises as he crashes his cars into each other. The innocence in his voice and the joy that oozes out of him is captivating. He giggles, gets mad, gets over it and moves on with life. Meanwhile, across town there’s a seventeen-year-old young man sitting in his…
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