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A birthday gift for you 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
I was born 39 years ago today under an African sky in the middle of nowhere Zululand. This will be my twenty first birthday without the woman who gave me her name, her story, and her crooked smile. ...
Five Minute Friday: Last 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Writing is like a mirror, we see ourselves best in what we’ve written. ~{click to tweet} Every Friday for nearly three years writers have gathered here for a kind of free write flash mob. We all spen...
A promise for my daughter 21 Aug 2013 | 02:34 am
I’m tired and she’s tired. And she’s been weeping with frustration, her face a smudge of red cheeks and snotty trails. I go down on my knees beside her little, chubby legs. They’re curving over the e...
Five Minute Friday: Small 16 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Wanna-be-writers welcome. <–Click to Tweet this This is where a brave and beautiful bunch gather every week to find out what comes out when we all spend five minutes writing on the same topic and the...
When you’re tired of waiting 14 Aug 2013 | 09:07 am
It’s that time of year where all I want to do is open the windows wide, wide. And catch light in stray corners of the house, under the kitchen table, in my son’s eyes. He smells of sunscreen, permanen...
How mothers are made 12 Aug 2013 | 07:04 am
I see you there. Aching with tired and the desperate hope for a few moments alone this evening. I see you cleaning that carpet again. I see those dishes that are on a constant rinse and repeat cycle....
Five Minute Friday: Lonely 9 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Friday, time to crack open the chocolate ice cream and unscripted version of beautiful you! Got five minutes? Let’s write. Let’s finger paint with words. Let’s just write and not worry if it’s just ...
When you wonder why everyone else seems to have friends 6 Aug 2013 | 02:07 am
The thing about women is that we always assume the girl next door, the women across the aisle, the mom in the car pool lane, your husband’s best friend’s wife, your cousin, great aunt or the stranger ...
Five Minute Friday: Story 2 Aug 2013 | 08:45 am
For the new folks around these parts, I should probably tell you about Fridays. So, here’s the skinny: every Friday for over two years hundreds of people have joined a kind of writing flash mob over ...
For the ordinary days 1 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
I’m sitting at the kitchen table and there are 14 years worth of scratches and markers and crayons lived into these planks. There’s an empty teacup and the smell of dirty baby diaper in the air. Boys ...
