I sat at her kitchen table and she poured me some wine. The kids were in and out of the house, up and down the stairs. She and I stayed in that spot for three hours, though our stories carried us through decades and across continents. That's an afternoon I can get down with. Summer [...]
I am a mother and, while what I share here doesn't focus on motherhood per se, I am forever colored by that experience. If you've been with me for a while, you know this. Having just celebrated my daughter's twelfth birthday and my son's sixteenth, I am shaking my head and nursing my heart at [...]
it's all about pockets of time. some day, when the children are older, i envision spending hours at a time creating. long photo walks. a table at the cafe down the street with pen and paper. hands covered with paint. needle and thread and swaths of fabric across my lap. this will come, the extended [...]
