Freeze…

Freeze…

There is this moment, this really good moment, and I want to capture it the way you can hold memory forever in a picture.   We're just riding, leaving the place she had chosen for her birthday dinner, where fate would have it that it was just a...

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She was born on a monday. It was a day worthy of memory:  a miracle.  a first.  a day the world changed for the better. A day my life changed for the better. That day her grandfather walked into my room and slipped a torn piece of paper into my...

Close calls

Close calls

It was instinct and adrenaline, a hopeful protector but futile shield: “Close your eyes, Abby.”   Impotent words, like the reflex a mama uses when brakes are slammed and her arm flings across the front seat of the car. The big sister in the driver’s...

The First Last. Again.

The First Last. Again.

“What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.” ~ Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding   My all-time favorite picture of Thomas, back in the olden days...

On coming home

On coming home

My eyes blink open to black of night, my body disoriented to time and place.  It's saying nine but the clock insists it's three. Familiar is foreign and foreign is familiar. Crazy, sleepy thoughts, crafted from fatigue and mental exhaustion, the toll...

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