by Ashley Larkin | Mar 25, 2014 | Family, Just Write, Love, Mothering, Open endings, Sorrow
She pads into our room at dark o’clock and tugs on my shirt. “I had a bad dream, but I don’t want to talk about it,” Lala says blankly, reciting the script as if by memory. Even in the middle of the night, I recognize...
by Ashley Larkin | Aug 6, 2013 | Celebration, Childhood, Just Write, Mothering
Summer has gathered us up in the folds of her skirts and taken us for quite a ride. Most recently, across five states in eight days and more than 1,900 miles and then home, smack dab into the crepe paper and cupcakes and sister-created scavenger hunt of Lala’s...
by Ashley Larkin | Jun 19, 2013 | Childhood, Grace, Gratitude, Just Write, Mothering, Parenting
The other night I shocked myself by placing dinner on the table at a decent hour, and so we’d bathed and scooped out portions of homemade ice cream into plastic cups before the pressures of bedtime set in. We dropped dollops of strawberry jam or drizzles of...
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