Memoir Archives - Page 11 of 18

If you can’t be with the ones you love, love the ones you’re with (Part 1)

by Robin | Sep 9, 2013 | Encouragement, Faith, Family, Inspiring, Kids, Memoir, Mom stuff, Nostalgia, Personal

She addressed me by my favorite name behind Mom and Aunt, the one that gives shape to identity– “Mama D, why do you talk to us?” I cocked my head to the side not sure what she was really asking, like maybe I was saying too much or dragging her...

On luck and charms

by Robin | May 21, 2013 | Memoir, Personal

"Is everything okay?" he calls out, unleashing his dog on the far side of his driveway, beyond the vacant lot on which I'm trespassing. I had noticed them half an hour earlier, at the beginning of my hilly, neighborhood powerwalk....

Stop this train

by Robin | May 3, 2013 | Family, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting

"Want me to play for you?" I've watched this one grow from boy to man, a day's change imperceptable, but the years impossible to miss. His brown eyes dance and his smile curls with ease and I'm never quite sure when he's sneaking...

a love and obscenity

by Robin | Apr 8, 2013 | Faith, Family, Life Philosophy, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized

My roots burrow deep into rusty Georgia clay. Daddy might’ve been born tasting a silver spoon but Mama worked, and worked hard, for everything she had. I remember a literal pot to pee in when we visited Papa, her father; but when I think on that a...

Always and forever

by Robin | Mar 14, 2013 | Faith, Family, Marriage, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized

He looks at her with hungry eyes, indifferent to the ears that might hear that don’t belong to her. When he finally speaks, his voice is satin, silken and soft, honey’s sweet drizzle. He purrs. “You look luscious….” Their eyes are...

A fool’s delusion, a cautionary tale and how Downton Abbey can save your life

by Robin | Jan 30, 2013 | Cancer is NOT okay!, Memoir, Personal

Image Source i. Stephanie was a little bitty thing. Even nine months pregnant she had coat hanger arms and matchstick legs and I wondered why her metabolism was in such a big hurry. She birthed her baby boy with no complication, but then she discovered...