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In memory of Grandma Fanny
We drove across three states, as we always do, to visit the log house she built with her husband named for sunshine. And the ache was palpable, undulating with the rolling hills of Wyoming, as we faded...
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Five Minute Friday: Tell (And a Cry to Listen)
300 Howard University students stand for Michael Brown, 8/13/14 There is no telling what it felt like to be in his skin in that moment. Was he afraid? Indignant? Was this one of those times his mama...
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Love around her neck, an end of sorts and kindergarten begins
She felt afraid. Worried she wouldn’t know enough. Missing how she used to be a baby, she said. Not ready. She felt excited. To meet friends and wear a purple backpack and practice numbers and read...
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Five Minute Friday: Hold
{Michael and I dressed up in our 60’s finest last fall} You’d never really held babies before, but there you were — such a pro — cradling our precious firstborn like a football. I envied you, then,...
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When growing up hurts (a mama)
Motherhood is push-pull. Hold me tight-let me go. It is I want you — and I want nothing to do with you. It is a long journey of holding close and releasing my grip. I’m experiencing it with all three...
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Five Minute Friday: When
When you wake in the morning with first thoughts of fear for tender lives in your care, or with the day’s tasks racing past your face on a hopped-up assembly line, or with pain over that relationship...
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The pelicans (an anniversary poem)
Sea foam sizzles and waves rumble, and both call me right to the edges because I feel no choice but to see life in contrasting metaphor, how Love is thunder and a settling into sands, gentle dance of...
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When redemption comes by a different name
I’ve recognized over the years, though I still don’t get, that some people are simply not animal people. No judgment here, friends. I just don’t understand. So for you, maybe this story is not about a...
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Reflections on the mountain top and coming back down
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. -Mary Oliver- You might have found yourself there. On the backside of an experience that is utterly ground-shifting life...
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Five Minute Friday: SAFE
Every pulse of my being desires to keep her safe. Draw her up close and not let go. Surround her with covers and the tenderness of my mama arms, stroking her tired head, rubbing her sore tummy in...
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