by Ashley Larkin | Mar 29, 2017 | Hope, Poetry
One would be wise to notice the breath catch of spring not because it is revolutionary in the way of something never seen or thought before, but because it is the same as last March and the one before, what grace One would be wise to apply spring’s wisdom to her...
by Ashley Larkin | Jun 26, 2014 | Celebration, Faith, Family, Hope, Mothering, Risk-taking
You could tell their stories weren’t garden variety kid fresh out of high school enters university and leaves with a diploma four (or five) years later, ready to take on the globe. What with their beautiful wrinkles and teary-eyed children, spouses and...
by Ashley Larkin | May 18, 2014 | Giving, Grace, Gratitude, Mothering
Down the street a chorus of chickens cluck their throaty calls. Next door the rain runs off our neighbor’s gutter from the place where there’s no downspout and splashes into a muddy puddle. Out back the horse chestnut grove looks to have grown...
by Ashley Larkin | May 15, 2014 | Childhood, Fear, Hope, Imperfect Prose, Mothering, One Word: Seek, Perspective, Tell His Story
We worry, in fact it brings tears right to the eyes this nagging feeling that these small lives don’t matter we know their small lives do with their bellies needing food and their potty accidents, their little hearts and eyes crying out, see me, and i need the...
by Ashley Larkin | Apr 4, 2014 | Five Minute Friday, Grace, Gratitude, Love, Marriage
Michael and I hamming it up in 2009, early 90’s senior photo style He called me a writer long before I called myself one. He encouraged me to take the space and get away to etch and tap words, to let my mind run free from the crumbs scattered across the counter...
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