by Ashley Larkin | May 28, 2014 | Hope, Poetry, Redemption, Truth-telling
We’re creaky, a little worse for wear, orangey rough sharp edges. When you open us up like gates, we make a racket and feel some embarrassed, like maybe we should have buffed out the bumpy parts and greased the creaky parts and put out shiny best, but you and...
by Ashley Larkin | Apr 1, 2014 | Concrete Words, Grace, Love, Mothering, Perspective, Truth-telling
It began with a rush and a flood and a steady slow trickle. It began in spinning anxieties and a heart that pounded fierce love and basked in her eyes, little neck and gurgles like wet birds. It began with deep soil digging and gave birth to skeleton structure and...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 14, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Childhood, Concrete Words, Family, Love, Marriage
We returned about 25 minutes ago from a long weekend with my sister and her family in Central Oregon. We feel full. From minestrone soup and brownies and nest building under the pine trees and running in the open grass and playing in the pool and listening to music...
by Ashley Larkin | Jun 14, 2013 | Family, Five Minute Friday, Love, Marriage, Mothering, Parenting
It’s ironic that when we sat on those sticky bench seats, and you and I met face to face for the first time in that big van on the way to Mexico, it was I who listened to you for so many hours. As you shared the story with the whole bunch of us, of Dad and his...
by Ashley Larkin | Jun 10, 2013 | Amusings, Concrete Words, Faith, Grace, Hope, Perspective
Welcome to those joining for the first time today from the blog of the lovely Nacole Simmons at Six in the Sticks. I’m honored to be guest posting there, along with others who are linking up their pieces on “The Morning.” If you’d like to get...
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