I still smile every time I see them. Of all the things my daughter owns, I can’t get enough of those peach knit mittens. The year before she came we traveled to Kodiak, Alaska to visit a friend. It was the year of the lost-daughter and I was still struggling to relearn how to breath after…
They promised him a ticket to the United States of America. The land of opportunity. The whole family took part. Everyone worked extra hard and pooled their money. They turned it over to the travel agency, who gave them one ticket. The plan was for him to go and then, in the land where money flows…
There are days when we are forced to carry burdens that are larger than our strength. I know. I still remember the day when we learned that the child we planned on adopting was no longer available to us. I was so broken, so lost, so confused. We had loved her, and shared smiles with…
“Everything is packed,” she told me as she came down the stairs. I smiled a little. It had only been a few minutes since I sent her up so I told her perhaps I’d better check. We walked into the room and there were her dresses, still hanging. The clothes folded on the shelves. The…
We woke up this morning to the first snow of the season. The ground was blanketed with a dusting of white and the air was nippy. My husband groaned a little, “I’m not ready for winter,” he said, then caught himself, “but I guess it will come whether I’m ready or not.” I stood for…
We went to town that night, in search of a new pair of sneakers. His old ones were wore right through. I was exhausted but wide-awake. My body flip-flopping between anxious stomach-wrenching questions and calm reassuring promises. It had been quite the week. Two funerals, a lot of thoughts, mourning a failed adoption, migraine headaches. He…
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