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Cadence and Daphne, Sleeping after Twenty Hours of Travel My girl and her littles are back in California after four years living in the Pacific. I’m going to say that one more time, because this mama is so happy she can’t hardly stand it: My girl and her littles are back in California after four years living in […]
Sometimes I wish, our friend says, lowering his voice and leaning toward my husband and me as we share breakfast at a local cafe, that my mom would remember that we’re the parents now. I nod, my silence carving out room for him to say more. Soon enough, he does: Our kids really do best on a schedule, and Shelly’s […]
Casey Renee, About One Hour Old. August 5, 2013 Impossible . . . One of my anthropology professors liked to paraphrase Heraclitus. You can’t swim in the same river twice, he would tell us. The older I get, the more I feel the truth of it: stuff changes. On this earth, just about everything is dynamic. When I think of […]
Rich and Our Grandson Ayden On Our Wedding Day. September 2, 2007. The question blindsided me during an arts-and-crafts session with our grandlittles Ayden and Carly. Rich was telling the kids a tale from his earlier days. Your Nana and I– Ayden looked at me, a question looming in his eyes, and asked his grandpa, You mean […]
Grammy’s and Pop-Pop’s. Christmas, 2012. A friend asked me last week: So where does God fit into this stuff about life in family? The question took my breath away. Isn’t it obvious? I thought. But she wouldn’t have asked the question if the answers were obvious. And if she asked it, others have thought it. So this week we’ll take […]
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