Message in a Bottle

by | Nov 4, 2009 | Callings, Faith, Family

My mom would have been 60 today. I wouldn’t have remembered if emails and phone calls hadn’t drifted across the deep, blue, Atlantic ocean and reminded me. Sixty. That means she was 25 when she had me. The same age I was when I got married. When I hung up...

Surfacing

by | Oct 25, 2009 | Family, Kids, Motherhood

Sometimes I forget that inside this skin lives a woman who was not always a mom. And she needs to breathe too. This weekend three old friends visited and they helped me catch my breath. I didn’t even realize how long I’d been holding it until I exhaled...

Attack of the Killer What-Ifs!

by | Oct 21, 2009 | Callings, Faith, Family, Kids

I sit in the late afternoon sun and watch my son load leaves onto his tractor. The same son who told me in no uncertain twenty-two month-old terms last night “Ear, Hurt. Docka.” It was late. The local pediatrician’s office was closing. We would have...
David, Goliath and the Over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder

Open arms

by | Oct 14, 2009 | Family, Kids, Raising Boys

Some days life comes at you in a fast, blurry, haze. You have to take a step back before it knocks you down. You adjust your focus and still can’t quite see things clearly. All you know for sure is that motherhood is a series of meals half eaten but never while...
David, Goliath and the Over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder

A thousand miles

by | Oct 12, 2009 | Family, Kids

When I came into work on Monday morning my hair still smelled of Sunday night’s campfire. I had washed it, but the smokey smell clung. Tucked into the back woods of Virginia we had cooked up a storm of hotdogs, burgers, boys at their battle stations, and...