Sometimes it depends on which day you ask. On how tired you are. On how many grapes you’ve cut and spills you’ve cleaned; Your thoughts on this Holy work. Sometimes the way you thought it would be has gotten swallowed up whole by the way that it...
I was not prepared. I only had a brother. One brother who kept to himself in his monochromatic sweat suits, silently watching a 9” TV screen way too close, while eating microwaveable burritos. He was peaceable, quiet, and unassuming. He had...
We just moved to the country. Not the have-to-send-telegraphs kind of country, but the kind with grassy hills and mature trees, and with enough space between you and your next-door neighbor that you don’t accidentally wake up holding hands. I, a...
I’ll never forget the moment. The standard stay-at-home-mom moment right before the message came. I had just picked up the same 10 toys I always did, and I had just changed a diaper that should have been brought up on criminal charges. I stood there...