by Robin | Jan 30, 2015 | Family, Kids, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized
When things go according to the way they should, your children will leave you. It’s a sobering thought if you’re lightyears away from that day, but time can be a jerk, stretching days impossibly long but shriveling years tiny, so when the time comes you...
by Robin | Dec 5, 2014 | Inspiring, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized, Writing
I can still visualize him though I haven’t seen him in over 30 years. A head of hair, still full but thinning, impossibly white and shiny. His shoulders sloped enough to age him but twinkly blue eyes subtracted time. Translucent skin and rosy cheeks and...
by Robin | Nov 20, 2014 | Breast Cancer, Family, Memoir, Personal
It is one of my earliest memories, certainly the first one I learned on purpose. One-seventy-five-baxter-drive-apartment-J-seven-five-four-three-four-two-eight-one I say it now like I did back then, without a breath in between each word. That’s how I could...
by Robin | Nov 7, 2014 | 31 Days: Hints & Tips for College Bound Students, Advice, Inspiring, Life Philosophy, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized, Writing
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, I’m in trouble. If you’ll indulge me, can we first look in the rearview mirror? Way back when, I was a daily blogger, no big deal at all. I would roll my eyes when NANOWRIMO came...
by Robin | Oct 18, 2014 | (in)courage, Faith, Inspiring, Memoir, Personal
I. I remember it like it was yesterday, when a new-to-me-speaker posed a question that crawled under my skin and has been itching ever since– “Are you the kind of person who walks into a room and declares, ‘Here I am!’ or do you walk into the room and say,...
by Robin | Sep 22, 2014 | Favorite things, Memoir, Uncategorized
Today I put my hair in pigtails. I’m not even sure what prompted me to do it. They’re messy. It doesn’t look good or cute or even appropriate, but I had no idea it could be an instant attitude adjuster. I mean, on the day girlfriend gets a new cut...