These are the nights I don’t tell you about. These are the nights that I think maybe, for real, we’re not going to make it. That maybe there was a reason we didn’t get pregnant, and that reason was my total unfitness to be a mother. These are the nights when I know for sure… Continue reading These Nights
Category: Family
Chocolate Mortar
I must have been about a year and a half old in this picture, and I don't remember it a bit. I know I'd seen the picture before, but I forgot about it entirely until I found it in a stack of family snapshots a couple of months ago. Given the news lately, I feel… Continue reading Chocolate Mortar
The Light Behind
I paused at the end of the drive a little more than two weeks ago to take the picture below. I was on my way to a hospital. My niece had a baby on a Saturday morning, more suddenly and traumatically than we had hoped. I got a call from my sister that her grandson… Continue reading The Light Behind
Sleepy Reader
There I am, sleeping in my father's recliner. Mostly he was the one who slept in that chair. He always started by reading The Daily Record, the local paper out of Wooster. It was delivered in the late afternoons then, and it was still a full-size broadsheet, and he read it after supper. He tried,… Continue reading Sleepy Reader
Stuck In the Middle
Today as I sit here and write, I'm okay. But I'm going to share something with you that I created when I was not okay. Last week, I was really upset. We ran into a little red tape with some of Levi's medications, and it looked like we were going to end up paying thousands… Continue reading Stuck In the Middle