This post can also be read under the “mission” tab at the top. If I’m being real – and what, exactly is the point if I’m not? – my mission has numerous facets or angles and a bunch of rough, jagged edges as well. It looks likes precious sapphire, blue just barely twinkling out of rock and […]
Memorial Day. A Memory.
This week in 1994, Ace of Base had the number one song, but our generation was still mourning the loss of Kurt Cobain. Nelson Mandela had just been inaugurated as the first democratically elected president of South Africa. Shannon Faulkner (remember her?) was making headlines nationally and locally in Charleston, South Carolina, where I was finishing my second […]
Lenia is Home
I have another child. She is a sweet, complicated 13/14 year old girl who is in many ways like a newborn. She requires near constant care and supervision, and she cannot (or perhaps, will not) communicate what she is thinking or feeling. We went shopping today. I bought her a bunch of clothes and Maggie […]