What are you holding?

What are you holding?

  “We hold so very much, don’t we?  So very much.”   Tears.   I’ve said this more than once to a woman new in her pregnancy.  There is no glow yet, there is no round belly, just the constant green malaise of morning sickness, and...
Tending the home fires

Tending the home fires

I’ve been spending a lot of time tending the fire, lately.   (both literally and figuratively)   On a good day, my two-year-old will occupy himself with a puzzle or some play-dough, and I pad softly down into our dark basement, feeling the heat of the...