Category Archives: kids

Memories

Posted on September 18, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

I love you more than words running across the road moments I could not have stopped even if I knew how to I love you more than what I, my, me, mine combined to make a whole world of all … Continue reading →

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Sophomore Year Begins

Posted on August 16, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

sweet air heavy with bees’ farewells moths dropping on the kitchen floor wings crumbled under the curious paws of the cat children who are no longer children filling their suitcases with clothes and linens books in bookbags, trunk full of … Continue reading →

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Show me

Posted on April 28, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

Before things get complicated and I not knowing how to navigate the waters rocking the boat. To say I have always known the ways will be a full blown lie. I get lost when the way is known by others. … Continue reading →

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of leaving

Posted on April 21, 2018 by makinglittlecircle

I am not supposed to mourn the loss of you.  There is no place in this culture where a parent is allowed to hold grief for a child’s leaving home: not this burning sorrow marring the skin. They say grow a … Continue reading →

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Perspectives

Posted on May 28, 2017 by makinglittlecircle

I’ve been thinking a lot about perspectives lately maybe because my son has just graduated from High School and would soon be leaving home. With this leaving, for the first time in the last twenty years, I would be completely … Continue reading →

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Miracles/aliens/angels/science on this day in 2011:

Posted on March 11, 2017 by makinglittlecircle

miracles/aliens/angels/science March 11, 2011 at 8:14am We were excited to see it. It was my son who pointed it out to me as we drove onto the highway from the hospital plaza where the kids just had their dental cleaning. … Continue reading →

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Letter to my son

Posted on March 1, 2017 by makinglittlecircle

Tharlay Alex, Most of our moments together in the past eighteen years were colored with my fears –for your safety, for your future, for your life, and with my worries about how I am not delivering the goods a normal … Continue reading →

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Motherhood

Posted on May 8, 2016 by makinglittlecircle

  It’s Mother’s Day here in the U.S, and I am wishing myself, “Happy Mother’s Day.” That is probably because no one in the house said anything to me about being a mother, or how wonderful and essential I am … Continue reading →

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Love is a tall skinny girl and a loud little boy

Posted on November 8, 2015 by makinglittlecircle

Mommy, look at me, they have said taking their first stab at every challenge this world gives them. Look at me, Mommy. Look. At. Me. Their breaths hot on my cheeks, their hands circling my neck fingers in the fold … Continue reading →

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sentimental Saturday

Posted on October 3, 2015 by makinglittlecircle

Some days you’re a puddle of memories, your heart is a tender fabric worn threadbare by time.  I am missing my daughter. I am missing her childhood that had passed by too quickly. I am supposed to walk around finding … Continue reading →

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