For a long time I thought I was not broken. I was happy. I had a good home, a good-enough job, plenty of material things to keep me satisfied, the ability to travel, the ability to help others, hope and possibility tucked up under my breast bones as snug as a brooding chicken settled into […]
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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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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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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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People ask me how being a mom has changed my writing, and the short answer is I don’t know yet. I know being a mom is changing me. I look at my daughter, and I can’t describe the emotions she stirs in me with her wide-open eyes like and chubby cheeks, like a Precious Moments
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