Time is short these days now that I am in grad school full time, teaching, and being a mom to my four wonderful kids. When a school assignment rolls around…

The end of another long week. Friday afternoon. We curl up in bed. She wants to draw with the new pastels I brought home and then he climbs in to…

As I draw in, she wraps her fire cape around my bare shoulder made of protruding bones and lies. I stutter to ask the occasional unanswerable “why” as I watch…