photo by Sara Parsons. It’s taken me awhile to form the words, and really truly believe them. I’ve moved swiftly between shock, anger, a deep guttural cries when I find myself alone and away from my other people. Sometimes it takes everything I have (and some things that I didnt know I had) to hold [...]
This morning as I sat on the edge of my bed, pulling on my socks, I noticed the black dress that I had packed for what I thought might be a funeral had fallen off it’s hanger and lay in a rumpled pile on the floor of the closet. I thought to myself, how grim [...]
This is Rylie’s first time selling cookies! Also, thats her brother whispering in the background! Seriously email me! She will call you this weekend to take your order!
I wrote this note to the designer Helen Ficalora last night. Hi, I have been a long time fan of your charms and felt very personally connected to my necklace. When I first met my husband, on our first Valentine’s day he gave me one of your necklaces with our initials S and T on [...]
Things are a little bananas around here. Ill be posting more soon. In the meantime, here are some sweet pictures I set up with my insanely talented friend Sara Parsons.
The last time I saw my birth father I was nearly four. My dress, it was light pink and itchy, my white tights neatly tucked into some shiny black shoes I didnt remember seeing before. I walked down a long hallway, I remember the clicks of my heels as I approached a room. There in [...]
One of the things I love most about Washington is the total optimism towards any potential sunlight. When the sunny spring and summer hits its rare you will find anyone inside on purpose. We met a new friend who just moved to the island. She had us over for crab quesadillas (which her friend caught) [...]
Image from Creature Comforts. Things I’m afraid to tell you. Inspired by Erin and Jenna who were tasked with writing a post by Creature Comforts. 1.) I’m afraid to meet you. The more excited someone is to meet me the more anxious I get about meeting them. I am afraid to let people down with [...]
My mother passed away while Mara was in the middle of her studies to become an R.N. She powered through and graduated. She had been working at Perkins School for the Blind and Deaf for as long as I could remember, so when she graduated it was no wonder that they hired her right away [...]
I can’t write much here that hasnt already been said. I thought in the spirit of Valentine’s Day I could share the love from the day we became a complete family. Every time I think about this day, I cry. Here is what I said at Rylie’s adoption in the courthouse: Growing up I would [...]