she stands so close to me, our forearms touching. her hands are absentmindedly playing with her dress. and she asks if she can sit o...

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 held your baby sister last night, snuggled her close and looked up at the moon. she reminds me so much of you. from her dark hair to h...

i've spent most of this past year in a state of expecting.   my body changing, my belly rounding, this small life inside of me growing a...

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 had wanted to document these days better. they are the last ones and i don't want to forget... i don't want to forget how differ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

and it's been a whole year since we left our yellow house,  and our life  behind. packed it all up and stepped out into the complet...

it's in the moment that he wraps his arms around me, pulls me close against his chest,  and reminds me to breathe that the wa...

she'll turn six in a week and is about to lose her third tooth. she wiggles it every day and asks me to do the same. i still remembe...

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

He catches my attention at a red light a couple miles from home. my mind has wandered and my ears have tuned out the chatter...  but m...

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's when i turn the wheel left that her question drifts up from behind me. as her face is lifted up and peering through the glass the...