being a mother and a writer | being a mother and a writer
Jun.08.2011
“You know it won’t be fun.” I was pretty sure the voice was mine (it had the same Southern twang and soft tone), but the words sure weren’t. What I had meant to say was, “You know we won’t have fun without you.”
As soon as those alien words spilled out, my nine-year-old son’s big brown eyes turned...
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Jan.16.2009
When my daughter turned four, I took off for two weeks, to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. In those days, there were no cell phones, and all of us artists lined up at the phone booth near the living room. But during dinner, the coveted phone was free, and it rang, for me! Heather's...
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