She sat behind the steering wheel of her car with her keys in one hand and her purse in the other. She pushed the door lock for what seemed the hundredth time and visually checked the other doors, before she leaned her head back onto the steering wheel where she sobbed. Deep sobs. Painful, fearful […]
My mom’s words were a warning, “I see you!” They still echo across the canyons of time. A stern warning that made me, as a sensitive little kid, stop what I was doing and want to run hide. Sometimes I did…hide …in the cluttered closet, behind the blankets and boxes and shoes or sometimes under […]
It probably looks like weeds to you, but it was so much more than tall weeds to me. It sucked the last bit of energy from my tired body. Wayne, wanted us to get to North Carolina in time to check things out. I wasn’t looking forward to it. I knew the grass would be […]
There have been many times that I’ve opened the drain in the bottom of the bathtub, then instructed one of my children to get out of the tub. Often I gathered them in my arms, wrapping them in a soft towel, while rubbing them dry and hugging them all at the same time. Sometimes they […]