it started with a phone call yesterday morning. you were humming quietly while the voice on the other end sounded measured and calm. too cal...

it all fell apart that canadian winter - you knew it deep down too.  fractured something in us all like that -26 air did to those snapping m...

i've been told this little one could come any day... i feel  like she could come any day. and my older three, the ones who sense th...

i'm entering into the last few days where he'll be my youngest...my baby boy. only, he hasn't been a baby for quite some t...

it's the first of october and by now, i would have thought sweaters and socks and red noses would have been a part of our days. i even...

it's as i'm driving home yesterday, turn right onto that loopy street when i look up at the temperature right there in the center of...

i wade through my days on waves of nausea. everything is tinged a little green. everything is made a little bit harder when the end can...

he stops the van and opens the doors in the shade of those trees that stand tall in the heat of the afternoon and i lean my head back as the...

unexpected, it is placed in the dark and the quiet of that space and it sits there. and it waits. and i don't even know it's th...

regardless of who he turned out to be, he began his life, hidden in the dark and quiet of his mother. his tiny heartbeat fluttered bene...

it's almost midnight and if i don't crawl beneath those covers in the  next 10  minutes that second wind is going to hit and i'l...

it's as i pulled the cloth over the surface of the tv stand that i paused and said it out loud, the life you ask us to lead is too har...

it happens every morning between 9 and 10. doesn't seem to matter where i'm standing, his voice finds me before his little feet do...

there are times and days and moments where the words become small and hushed and few. where moments gain moment...

it's on the eve of epiphany when i enter his room, in the silence and the hush of a house gone quiet i notice a light shining in th...

i sit all nervous in the comfy chair placed discreetly by the door. i'm noticed and motioned to choose a table, any table and make it ...

it fell in great white flakes that new year's eve 2 years ago. he pulled me up out of our fresh grief out into the cold... into...

he has a friend from college that he loves like a brother. the one who stood as best man at our wedding, this same friend? he has a wif...

it's on the wrong side of town, and the wrong side of the tracks that i find my heart completely ruined and busted open. ...