by Robin | Mar 8, 2018 | Compassion - India, Compassion Bloggers, Compassion International, Good causes, Inspiring, Love Gifts, Personal, Uncategorized
I’m sitting at my kitchen table where the sun is piercing filthy windowpanes, a thing I notice in the morning but forget by noon’s shadow. A ladybug sits on the sill, I’m assuming dead. Our home is a death spiral for pretty bugs dressed in red with...
by Robin | Mar 17, 2011 | Family, Kids, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens
The moon is halfway through the sky and I am alone when they bring her to me and I'm glad. She is joy bundled in flannely white with end stripes in pink and blue. I smile to think she looks like an ice cream cone–swaddled tightly with the...
by Robin | Nov 15, 2010 | Chattanooga, Family, I *Heart* Faces, Kids, Photos
On top of the world…. Renaissance Park, Downtown Chattanooga, TN. Cousins jumping, not kissin' :). My submission for this week's I Heart Faces photo challenge. Every week I manage to learn something new just from observing others....
by Robin | Jan 12, 2010 | Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Teens & Tweens, Wordless Wednesday
One day I returned home to find my daughter's friends had graffitied the hall mirror at the top of our stairs…They're teenagers…and I haven't been able to bring myself to Windex their sweetness. Would you?{And, at least it wasn't the...
by Robin | Oct 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago I wrote about how excited I was to have a "reason" to use my darling soup plates I've had for years but have used only once; Amber, The Runamuck, encouraged her readers to celebrate "friendship" by hosting a "Sister...