The thing about family is you can't choose them. You might be tempted to choose differently, at the moment when they drive you the most insane, at the height of the insanity, when the emotions are high, nobody is listening to anyone else and above all...

Anticipation Frustration Anxiety Reservation Waiting, subdued, in and out of reality Surreal, frail, in anothers' hands Presuming finality A moment One moment Quiet - too quiet Another moment The earth pauses. God works again. And again. You cry. ...

Contrary to what you, oh loyal readers (and Facebook friends who happened to catch this on your news reel) are thinking, I do blog every day. Lately it's been just in my head, but nevertheless! I am "mind" writing. It's something! I was filling up...

I crumple up the little brown bag containing the rest of the cranberry muffin. How dare I eat even that much of it? The door behind me swings open again, tiny bells jingling. Footsteps across the raised hardwoods remind me of something distant,...