I lost my daughter this afternoon. It was less than three minutes before I found her, but it was long enough for panic to set in. I found this donkey as I looked for her, breathing in her smell on the stuffed animal she loves. My husband had gone to the basement to flip the …
Hopefully, if all goes well, this will be my new view in July. I wrote a few months ago to you all here about selling our home for the dream of a life in the country. My husband and I grew up rurally and have since lived in cities, suburbs, and small towns here in …
You’re okay now. You’re okay now. I said these words to my daughter today, over and over again until the words became a song with a rhythm all its own. My body became my daughter’s safe haven as she softened into it, her breathing matching my own. I stroked her hair as she sat in …
“There’s my baby,” I said. “Hey, Mama,” was her reply and she handed me a lilac, her chubby little fingers with the crease in her wrist; both remind me she’s a baby. My almost two-year-old daughter has used these turn of words twice today and even though it’s cute, the phrase seems too old for …