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...
by Robin | Oct 6, 2014 | 31 Days: Hints & Tips for College Bound Students
{Haven’t yet subscribed? Please do!} Do you remember how you would answer the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” when you were around five or six? What would prompt us to do that, to ask children to speculate as to what they’d...
by Robin | Nov 1, 2010 | Family, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal
Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved I almost missed it because I was so self-absorbed. The first...