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...
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 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 9, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Childhood, Faith, Grace, Gratitude, Imperfect Prose, Mothering, Tell His Story
Sometimes we don’t want to be right here. While that is perhaps the most obvious statement of the century, it’s true that one of the greatest hindrances to being right where we are is that sometimes, for seemingly small or large reasons, right here is not...
by Ashley Larkin | Oct 2, 2013 | 31 Days 2013: Right Here, Faith, Fear, Imperfect Prose, One Word: Trust, Tell His Story, Trust
I walk downstairs to the kitchen counter where I pick up my phone and check the emails that filled my inbox overnight. I boil the water for coffee, grind the beans, fill the French press and my mug with hot from the tap so they’ll be good and ready. The grounds...
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