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When travel leads you home

by Ashley Larkin | Jul 3, 2014 | Childhood, Family, Risk-taking, Trust

As a girl, I studied the globe and pages of books filled with stories of people from many lands, gazed at traditional costumes on my porcelain dolls, memorizing skin tones and lace. I spoke with accents, learned to distinguish U.S. dialects and the origin of last...

What I learned in March

by Ashley Larkin | Mar 29, 2014 | Amusings, Family, Joy, Love, Marriage, Mothering, Perspective, Trust

1. Roller skating makes me feel crazy alive. I can roll and roll and roll around a circle (oval?) with my limited skill in the midst of some of my favorite people and a man flourishing a white towel with every epic twirl, and never tire. I cannot explain why...

The DMV and Jesus

by Ashley Larkin | Mar 6, 2014 | Faith, Fear, Grace, Love, One Word: Seek, Perspective, Trust

The DMV is one of life’s great equalizers. Yesterday morning I take a number, sit in a plastic chair and wait. I cannot make anything move faster — not the people, not the numbers lit red on the rectangular screen above our heads, and neither can anyone...

Five Minute Friday: Visit

by Ashley Larkin | Jan 24, 2014 | Childhood, Family, Grace, Mothering, Parenting, Trust

They will come back. Often. And from not far away. Maybe from the loft, the small farm in the Gorge, the cottage just south of here. A mama can dream. She’ll be wearing her hair slightly differently than the last time. She’ll tilt her head just so to keep...

The road ahead and home

by Ashley Larkin | Jan 9, 2014 | Community, Faith, Grace, Hope, Love, One Word: Seek, Perspective, Risk-taking, Surrender, Trust

I drive down the freeway at sixty, leaving behind me a gathering of women I’ve called mine for the last eleven years. I’ve said my good-byes and heard loving final words and looked in eyes and said, thank you for everything. They tell me I can always come...

I’m Not Writing Tomorrow! And Some Final Thoughts On 31 Days Of Right Here (31 Days of Right Here: Day 31)

by Ashley Larkin | Oct 31, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Childhood, Faith, Grace, Gratitude, Mothering, Perspective, Redemption, Rest, Risk-taking, Trust, Truth-telling

The recovering perfectionist in me wants to tie this 31 day series in the most gorgeous grosgrain ribbon. Leave you dancing with a completed work of art, sparkles and moonshine in its wake. But the part of me that calls you friend would rather be real and shout,...