empty nest Archives - Robin Dance

Facing giants {a series on motherhood & empty nest}

by Robin | Aug 17, 2015 | Aging, Empty Nest, Family, Health, Inspiring, Life Philosophy, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal

i. I’ve been pulling this Band-aid off for so long, I’ve become accustomed to the sting. It still hurts but the pain is a dull one just below the surface. Until it isn’t. But then once it’s off, that means the healing has taken place and the...

The Summer Everything Changes || Thoughts on Empty Nest

by Robin | Jun 11, 2015 | Faith, Family, Memoir, Personal, Uncategorized

Friends keep asking me how I’m doing. It’s an understandable question, I suppose, given this is the summer Everything Changes. And maybe I’m misreading all those furrowed brows and sympathetic nods, but I’d swear it seems like they imagine me...

Last things || On Letting Go and Empty Nests

by Robin | Jan 15, 2015 | Uncategorized

I can feel it, this thing. It hangs in the air like a winter’s dingy fog, filling space and controlling the atmosphere of the soul. Foreboding. Present. A dread. The gray slithers in, a quiet bully, trying to make me forget the sun is just beyond that somber...

home alone

by Robin | Jun 23, 2009 | Family, Kids, Life Philosophy, Marriage, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Photos

Interminable quiet bears witness to my house's 327-pound weight loss this week: my children are scattered like birds leaving the nest.Like the paradox of deafening silence, their absence is more conspicuous than their presence. Almost.It's a...