I’ve always been a tomboy, my older-by-eight-years brother’s hand-me-down toys some of my favorites. G.I. Joe went on as many, if not more, adventures than Malibu Barbie and Suntan Ken did. Surprisingly, though, I never went fishing, as many of the kids I grew up with did and seems the…
“I knew we had crossed a line when my husband started referring to me, Alexa and Siri as his sister wives.” — Sister Rain
Amy C. My first overnight at a friend’s house that couldn’t be seen from my own. It was 7th grade, my first year in junior high, when your world explodes beyond the fifty kids you’ve known since kindergarten. I don’t recall what her mom made us for dinner but I…
“There is so much more to being a dad than DNA. Including being a safe place to land.” HAPPY FATHER,S DAY!!! —- Piper
Recently I’ve heard about a lot of couples sleeping in separate beds for the sole purpose of them both getting a good night’s sleep. Personally, I think it’s not a bad idea and it hasn’t been implemented here primarily because we don’t have another bed and the futon in our…
When I meet someone going through a rough time, or a person in my life is struggling, I want to help by offering some of the things I have learned since the within-five-months’ losses of my mom and my vision. But lately I have begun to worry: When does passionate…
I had been in the hospital two days when the decision to operate came quickly on a Friday night. I had not yet eaten dinner and lunch had been about six hours earlier. The skin abscess was not improving and the staph infection was so desperate to leave my body…
As much as I love to read, I have begun to obsess about long chapters. I don’t like them. And I don’t know why. Reading, to me, is both the desire to never have the story end, to not lose the characters you have invested time and interest in, and also…
“It’s not the actual wound that’s the challenge. It’s the healing.” — Sister Rain
It is the most common form of identification, accepted everywhere and other than our phones, the item we are sure to always have with us. It proves to the world that we are who we say we are and represents freedom and independence as it serves as the legal document…
