by Ashley Larkin | Apr 17, 2013 | Faith, Favorite posts, Fear, Hope, Mothering, Sorrow, Truth-telling
I check the email on my phone at about 5:30 on Monday evening — right after we say goodbye to the little friends I watch every Monday and Tuesday — and read the words, “in light of what has happened in Boston today…” And I feel the...
by Ashley Larkin | Mar 7, 2013 | Community, Family, Favorite posts, Grace, Mothering, Truth-telling
I still remember sitting in her living room, holding my squirmy two-year-old girl on my lap. My friend spoke about comparisons and how she’d been tearing herself apart with them for years. I leaned in. “I’d compare my clothes to that friend’s,...
by Ashley Larkin | Mar 5, 2013 | Celebration, Childhood, Community, Faith, Favorite posts, Gratitude, Just Write, Love
This circle is bigger than the circumference of these shoulders touching, these fingers scratching backs, these glasses of wine and red vines and smiles thrown from one side of the room to the other. This circle is greater than the sum of lunches in the upstairs...
by Ashley Larkin | Dec 18, 2012 | Community, Faith, Family, Favorite posts, Sorrow
Several weeks ago a dear friend invited me to participate in an evening of silence. I figured I would need such a night in the midst of Christmas season busy-ness. It would be good to take a break and still. Last night was that night. On the heels of a weekend in...
by Ashley Larkin | Nov 30, 2012 | Celebration, Favorite posts, Hope, Perspective, Risk-taking, Sorrow, Truth-telling
If you’re like me, you long to know that it matters. You long to know that your scrapping and scraping, your saying yes and agreeing with life in a thousand everyday decisions is for something. You long to know that your struggle through that darkness, that...
by Ashley Larkin | Nov 6, 2012 | Childhood, Community, Favorite posts, Just Write, Mothering
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