Take Your Writer Out for a Walk

Take Your Writer Out for a Walk

Scattered Home

Scattered Home

Home in my head is even more scattered now, because it includes the places my children have made theirs. I came home from Chicago with a full heart because the parent in me is joyful to find the warmth, safety, and the coziness of home under her child’s roof.

Emotions then Numbers

Emotions then Numbers

Maybe we can think of 125 things Mom means to us—one for each day of this year so far—before we drift off under the Chicago sky, where city lights dim the stars.