“Can I say a bad word?” At least he asked permission. “If you really have to, go in the bathroom and yell it into the toilet,” I offered...

He had spun me from what was left of my childhood, turning me toward the rich path of motherhood by his very existence. I made...

The six year old practices every bad word he knows in one long stream, shot directly at my quiet request to put on fresh underwear. Three...

Once, I cried at a baseball game. It was dark, so no one probably even knew. By some sort of twist in the interpretation of a rule…or...

She remembered things differently from what I could recall. Seasoned in some ways, I couldn’t see what was right in front of me. Despite...

Yesterday, I was having a good day, which really wouldn’t seem extraordinary except there just haven’t been a whole lot of them lately. A...

“Mom, why is your garden really empty right now?” The words of my five-year-old came from a place of curiosity. The corn stalks that had...

If our eyes are windows to our souls, the other features certainly help with interpretation. The thoughts are higher, bigger, and more...

As a fresh spring chicken of a foster parent, I was given by one of my dearest friends a candy-pink shirt with the words, “Love is Not...

We don’t have to go back to some of the hard things. We have come so very far. Last year at this time, as the cold set in, we were...

“I had a great time. Can’t wait until next week.” Well, that was a relief, because the faces he made during the hour-and-fifteen-minute...

They’re a bit like my children, hummingbirds. We never know how long they will stay, or when they are going to come back. I have made a...

The purple couch was like an old friend. It accepted us, its people, where we were, with our dirty baseball cleats, fevers, and bad...

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not into thine own understanding.” –Proverbs 3:5-6 “Shut up, you stupid idiot, or else...

I didn’t know what to say, so I didn’t say anything. I had no idea what to do, so I did nothing. Still, the days passed, and there was...

It sure is cold outside. She was as sweet a baby as ever I have known, and I was so happy that she was mine. But actually, she wasn’t...

It’s not that I’ve lost my way; I am just not yet sure where I am going. For a time, I was sure that I knew: the activities of my future...

On the day that summer turned to fall, I took my little son to the park. The blue of the sky made the clouds stand out, drawing our...

The sun was just beginning to set as I finally made my way out into the evening, leaving the confining walls of the hospital, alone, as I...

She didn’t say a word, and neither did I. It may have seemed like just a piece of paper, but to me it represented much more. For nearly...