by Robin | Oct 10, 2014 | 31 Days: Hints & Tips for College Bound Students, Mom stuff, Parenting, Uncategorized
As I mentioned at the beginning, my October series will alternate posts for the senior in high school who’s in the throes of the college application process AND for the younger students who have a year – or five – before they have to start thinking...
by Robin | Aug 6, 2014 | Aging, Family, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized
It was sometime after the start of last school year when my youngest decided to be a jerk. “Wow, Mom, next year is going to kill you…” He had my attention. “…I’ll be graduating high school and Rachel will graduate from college.” His...
by Robin | Jul 27, 2014 | (in)courage, Faith, Family, Memoir, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal
i. It’s four in the morning and I’m wide awake and angry about it; tossing and turning has done little to fuel exhaustion back to sleep. Begrudgingly I receive my insomnia as an invitation to prayer. It’s a sleepy intercession for the troublesome circumstances of...
by Robin | Jun 5, 2014 | Memoir, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized
Twenty-one years ago I was walking in the days of great expectation. My first was to be born at the end of a long, hot summer, smack dab in the middle of one of only three months I had told God I did not want to have a baby. He grinned and said, “August...
by Robin | May 22, 2014 | Family, Memoir, Mom stuff, Mothers and daughters, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized
How is it that I’ve never accomplished being two places at once but she’s everywhere I turn? In the blue mason jar on the kitchen counter. (Out of all the glasses I have, these are what she chooses to drink from. Every time.) In the half-eaten Zip-loc of...
by Robin | Jan 6, 2014 | Parenting, Personal, Poetry, Uncategorized, Winter
Winter’s Lament Four snowflakes sailed passed my window a horizontal glide a finger to gravity wind’s revelation. tiny misguided flurry losing its way leaving their pack choosing a less-traveled path. so easy to count too easy to count a tease a taunt a...