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...
by Robin | Jan 28, 2013 | Personal
Closest thing I've got to a burqa… Two days before Christmas, I received a duplicate comment — an anonymous, public duplicate comment — on two faith-based sites to which I contribute monthly: Robin, Please, please, – my heart asks,...
by Robin | Jan 8, 2013 | Memoir, Personal
I wasn't thinking about it when I woke up this morning. In fact, I'm not even sure I've committed this date to memory. Is it because I'd rather forget very sad things? I have this old perpetual calendar, gifted to me by a friend maybe 15 years...
by Robin | Jan 4, 2013 | Blogging, Do Something!, Personal
i. It was the intensity of his gaze that held me captive, anchored to whatever it was he wanted to say. Leaning forward, hands twined around his mug, he wrestled for words that wouldn't make him sound threatening or crazy. "I had a dream about...
by Robin | Jan 2, 2013 | Inspiring, Memoir, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens, Uncategorized
Afew years ago I learned an invaluable parenting lesson in the most unexpected of Life Classrooms: a funeral. From the time I met her in the hospital, Teresa had always been in poor health. In the few years I knew her, she visited death’s threshhold multiple...
by Robin | Jan 1, 2013 | Memoir, Personal
i. The last time this happened, I was a college freshman having the time of my life; so many years ago I'm not going to tell you how many, because even I am having a hard time believing the distance between then and now. ii. Born and raised in Athens,...