Learning how to say how you feel and explain it in a way others can understand is hard. It is a lesson Mina is learning this week. Her dad is coming back soon after about 5 weeks in Turkey and the proposed visitation schedule is not what Mina had anticipated. At first, I wanted to take her thoughts …
Welcome to Wonderland
“Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes …
Invisible
As a Single Mom, I record Mina's life in pictures and videos. When I look back through the years of pictures, I notice that there are few candid pictures which include me. I am that silent presence taking pictures, but there isn't someone there to capture those mother/daughter moments that so many …
A New Scary
Mina and I knew this day would come for a couple of months now, but it was an abstract concept with no date attached to it. Somehow that seemed to render it not so real...yet. The date is set. Friday, Mina's dad begins his sabbatical in Turkey for the next few months and life shifts again. We have …
Thank You
I have always been a grateful girl, but I have made a conscious effort to be more vocal about it by saying thank you more often. I think it began during and after my divorce when people began to reach out and help me not because they had to but because they wanted to. I wasn't used to being helped. …