Jul 6, 2014 | A Day In The Life, Family
There is nothing easy about being states and oceans and cities away from three of your four kids. I would love nothing more than to have all of my kids close enough to drop in for dinner or to spontaneously call each of them and say, “Hey! Can you meet me for...
Jun 29, 2014 | A Day In The Life, Family
Here I am back, my own side of the world The land of the free, our proud flags unfurled. Back to the place where familiar feels safe Where routine is the rule so my comfort won’t chafe. I fall into a bed with my own unique dent When I’ve come home so...
Jun 29, 2014 | A Day In The Life, Family
Words, thoughts, ideas, memories, passions all floating, bumping, exploding in my mind all night as I lay on my never-felt-better bed last night. But there is little to no way that these processing words can work their way past the exhaustion of my foggy mind or the...
Jun 27, 2014 | A Day In The Life, Family
A lump in my throat. A heart full of emotion, and a mind full of memories, both of which will be spilling out for days to come. Today we say goodbye. It seems like just yesterday that we got here and yet it seems like a lifetime ago. We are changed. We are...
Jun 26, 2014 | A Day In The Life, Family
Amazing Grace. We’ve known the tune all our lives. The lyrics are memorized. Thousands of renditions have been made of this song. In recent years, its meaning has become more poignant to me than ever before. But this beloved song, hundreds of years old, takes on...
Jun 26, 2014 | A Day In The Life, Family
Every day here has been such a gift. Every once in a very long while you experience something that makes time fly and stand still simultaneously. The days that aren’t long enough to hold the minutes and hours that are bursting at the seams, not just with...
