eugene and wilma moved out this past week. they unloaded their house and hitched up their 5th wheel and sold their home to a young family ...

i grew up in a small baptist church where all the grey-haired ones became my aunties and uncles and where i would sneak a pickle or two from...

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...

the sun is setting earlier and the air is turning crisper... i leave the windows open to let fall sneak in. and it was on an evening th...

the wind has been blowing outside these windows, the leaves are beginning to fall. this small baby inside of me is tumbling in my dark ...

ending moments are always the hardest, the most difficult. especially when they are drawn out and still need to be lived through. Jesus...

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...

He spoke it in the quiet of the new year .  that promise of a new thing; of a way in the wilderness and rivers in a desert. i thought H...

the house was silent and everyone sleeping, except me and this keyboard sitting on top of my lap.  the tapping of keys pressed down rings ou...

they came back this spring, as slowly as this season appeared. one by one they began buzzing circles around small bodies and little ones w...

i stay wrapped up in blankets this morning; the sun pours in and i open up those curtains. while the little ones sleep, i sneak into the k...

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...

{winner of giveaway is named at the bottom of the post...} we sit out in the sun once school is done and lunch is hot, the three of them a...

he hung himself on that tree and died there. but it wasn't just him who died... so many other things died too. i have thought, ho...

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...