I have been watching my babies, thinking about time, and how there is never enough of it – not for me, not for them, not for anyone. My son has lately begun yelling for his food “right now” while I prepare his meals in the kitchen. My daughter speaks on instant repeat looking for immediate [...]

this is my quiet time. my listening time. my fade-into-the-background time. the travel, the two babies, the constant lack of time calls me quiet, calls me out of existence into the still to be found when I talk nonsense and nothing, when I don’t want my phone to ring, when I need to get through [...]

Night comes here, again. The evening passes too slowly – and too quickly; I don’t have time to capture time that is spinning away from me as if the hands on the clock have come alive. They wave at me, taunting. I glare. I can hear the laughter. Time waits for no one. It would [...]

I honestly don’t know when you’ll get this, he wrote three years ago, while we were waiting for Piper, when he was leaving for another conference, when we couldn’t spend time together that we wanted to spend. This afternoon. Or tomorrow. Or maybe next week… He gave it to me yesterday, sealing the envelope that [...]