When we greeted our first child after a rather exhausting process of labor that caused me to take a full year before I could even speak of the possibility of a sibling for her, I felt a bursting wide in my heart of places I had no idea existed. As we did eventually decide to…
Wednesday Randoms #1 The Midwest is having a bit of a winter storm. We all went to bed last night with rather unclear expectations. Some local schools went ahead and closed, but listening to the weather caster at 10:00 was basically like: if it snows, we will have snow to deal with, but maybe it…
I was scrolling through the bazillion pictures on my phone the other day and came across one of this gem, who I still miss terribly and whose influence on my life bears fruit with regularity. She is one of an army of women who were a generation ahead of us and who walked with grace…