A record of the incessant and trivial chatter running through my head.
Category Archives: Uncategorized Why, I’m so glad you asked. It looks something like this. . . We went home this weekend. Home? Okay, it’s not really my home. I haven’t lived there for a really long time, but I still claim it as my own. Maybe there is some deep psychological issue within me that leads me to […]  Ah, Motherhood. Before you dive into it, you really don’t know what to expect. Or, at least I didn’t. When I was blessed to read that “+” sign on the pregnancy test and to hear the doctor’s congratulations you are pregnant, my mind didn’t really go beyond that wrinkly little bundle I would cradle in […]  . . . you and I are far more powerful than we ever really know. . . The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, […]  Chanelle and I did something that I typically avoid at all costs. . . we ventured into Walmart. . . after dark. Most of our Walmart trips happen first thing in the morning. The morning Greeter makes the experience a pleasant one. For example, just last week after issuing his cheerful Good Morning! Welcome to […]  It’s funny, I said to Chad, it’s just hitting me that it’s permanent.What? he asked me.That she’s not coming back. That I’ll never again have a Mom. That it’s over.Yeah, he said.It’s just so. . . sad, I said to him.It is. You might be surprised at how often little conversations like this pop up […] |
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