via robert and i drove down the road yesterday in the balmy carolina summer air. the kind that hangs stagnant without relief of breeze. w...

via i apologize for the silence in these parts lately. truth is, i've been super busy. so busy that when robert surprised me at work ...

it's just not going to happen. the brownies will not get made for bible study. the whites will not get washed. and the noodles might b...

like mamas who stuff lollipops in their purse before church, we know all the right bribes to make pablo stay quiet. our go-to incentive is a...

she had the couch reupholstered last year. the one right by the front door, in a pearly shade of white. clean, like a sno-cone before the gr...

pablo won't eat unless i sit with him. unless i'm rubbing his back and whispering that it's okay, that no one is behind him, th...

robert left this morning to spend a weekend with his cousin in virginia. as i left the house, driving away on the gravel road washed me w...

the other day, mama handed me a tupperware container and said, "i want you to have this." she had taken it from the attic and, wi...

there are things you can't admit anywhere but a midnight highway. things you can't let your heart feel until trees past by in blurs...

baby flower buds are one of my favorite things in the world. stretching their little faces toward the sunshine. there are few more innocent,...

i reached for his hand across the stick shift. lets go on an adventure, i said. where to, he asked. anywhere. i looked out the window at...

   xxx   sometimes it's not enough to cry. or to vent. or to talk about it to my dog. sometimes it's not enough to think positively...

i thought time would take it away. that after 10 years, i wouldn't hear the voice of the boy across the lunch table telling me, in to...

 robert is home sick. for the second day in a row. with an ear infection, at that. the last time i thought about ear infections was when i...

whether they are a part of their home or home is a part of them is not a question children are prepared to answer. having taken away the dog...