The Wink

Tides

It’s been more than a year since I wrote about the heartache of life’s demands. It’s actually the heartache of my own desires, but that is so hard to admit, isn’t it? Whether you are a mom or a wife, a civil servant or a student, to admit when you desire to have something or [...]

Forever 5:34

Captured moments like familiar freckles on my face, record an afternoon outdoors upon my skin, sustaining me as the faces of my babies sprint, wisps to locks and dimples fade to smooth, left in the wake the sinew of walking legs, the facial hollows of young women. A few weeks ago I had one such moment with Briar. Recalling it now through [...]

Journal of a Traveler

Just like her mama, messing up sayings and mixing up white knuckling and nail biter as we embarked on our first flight. Boarding passengers shrank from the sight of us…suckers, she was more agreeable than any adult flying the unfriendly skies. Without exception, no less than 1/3 of every airport purchased meals is unworthy of ingestion. Air travel [...]