we are the lucky ones
“We are the lucky ones,” my sister Angela reminds us gently. She often says this in a slightly hushed tone, happiness about life tempered with the realization that it might not have turned out this way. Coming off of a…
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
Lazy W Marie
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
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fifty years xoxoxo
Tomorrow my parents reach their Golden Anniversary. What a milestone! What an increasingly rare and beautiful thing. Every year, it seems our age difference, already relatively small, shrinks a little more. Their nearness both to retirement and now this incredible…
happy 28th birthday to my girl
You are twenty eight tomorrow. Twenty eight! I remember your twenty first birthday. And before that, the day you first left for Colorado. I thought it would only be a few months, a seasonal internship. Even earlier, the day you…
another year, a thousand more love notes
Twenty two years! Handsome is off work for a nice stretch while we celebrate our anniversary, and we are hitting the reset button HARD. Last night, just two days deep into the appointed retreat, we both commented on how much…
fathers day 2023
For a man whose nature demands that he take action and responsibility for every problem that enters his periphery, for a man who sees the world’s threats and pitfalls a split second before he sees its beauty, fatherhood is a…
a dream and a prayer
I had the most wonderful dream about Jocelyn last night. Last night she came to me as a toddler, a baby really, those enormous dark brown eyes twinkling at me, her tiny pink mouth smirking and smiling. Her little body…