Before school even began I’d felt overwhelmed, to be honest, just from looking at the bell schedule alone. It really feels like parents...
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Their objective was clear from before school even started:Let no one ever know they owned jackets, or had a family here.My two middle...
When my daughter, Conley, was a younger version of the funny, charming, dancing, gap-toothed girl that she is today, as I tucked her into...
My middle two daughters start high school this week, and that has me feeling so many things. I’m reminded of doing high school drop-off my...
As I sat in my last class of the day, Algebra II, which was not only my most despised subject but also the one that I was remarkably inept...
Is it possible to have an open heart and a closed fist? Is it possible to have an open mind and a closed door? Can one have a humble, meek...
Any time I leave the house, I always ask my husband and kids if they need anything from the grocery store or Walgreens or Target or...
Summer for me has always been a great marker of time. More so even than Christmas, as lovely, sentimental, and holy as that season...
Plumes of black smoke stuttered up from the muffler of my grandmother’s abused Buick Riveria as she rocketed down the unfamiliar winding...
The Crestview Cemetery was in plain view. It was way too spooky, too dark, and too unkempt for me to linger any longer than I already had...