In the past months, the child has grown. Ivan and I have not grown, at least not physically. I hope we have learned a thing or two about life and living it well. Here are a few favorite photos of all of us, and a video that I love, taken near the end of January. […]
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After my recent post about my father-in-law and his death, a reader who receives posts by email contacted me to let me know she couldn’t see any of the photos. She never has been able to for my blog, she said, even though she can see photos from others who send them via email. Is
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I last posted seven weeks ago. In the intervening time a lot has happened. I finished a college class while caring for my own little family and helping to care for Ivan’s dad. During those weeks, Ivan’s dad grew weaker and further away from us in mind. As my dear Native friend Charlene would have
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Confession: I don’t know much about poetry. When I write a poem, I put together words I like. That is all. Imagine this poem spoken over a changing table in that moment of weird realization when you wonder how on earth this human being, with her knowing eyes, arrived in the world fully formed. She
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Everyone I know is waiting. They wait for a new house. A new baby. Healing from sickness. The end of one thing and the start of another. When I first composed this article, fifteen hostages waited in Haiti, yearning to be free. Simeon waited for years to see the Messiah, and when he saw him
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