by Ashley Larkin | Apr 26, 2012 | Amusings, Childhood, Fear, Gratitude, Joy, Mothering, Perspective
Chaos and overwhelm once filled my vision gray. When the rolling waves came, walls suddenly felt charcoal close and skin glowed steely pale. Stuffed animals and laundry piles often reached for me with their long dark tentacles, and I panicked, and then the breathing...
by Ashley Larkin | Jan 31, 2012 | Favorite posts, Gratitude, Hope, Joy, Mothering, Perspective
Only bleached cherry pits under foot and a bright yellow bus and a dad in a rain slicker walking his bike up the sidewalk. Only kids on the playground playing tag and a girl with jet black hair screaming a warning call with all she’s got. Only three-year-olds...
by Ashley Larkin | Jan 28, 2012 | Biblical tales, Childhood, Mothering
Perhaps no other words from my childhood (save for magazine collage) rang with that same promise of colorful magic: Flannel board. Fuzzy technicolor stories sprung from the mouth of a grownup onto a giant board where they stuck. It was amazing, simply amazing. As a...
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