mixed emotions
Posted in daughter, heart, kids, motherhood, Parenting, Travel on Jul 22nd, 2010
In front of me is a notepad and her camera. To my side is six screwed up bits of paper.
Carla Delvex. Motherhood. Things in between.
Posted in daughter, heart, kids, motherhood, Parenting, Travel on Jul 22nd, 2010
In front of me is a notepad and her camera. To my side is six screwed up bits of paper.
i feel insular, inside out, separated sock. letters scroll past, squeezing my insides, sharp consonants around lungs. soft vowels around hearts. there’s some kind of feeling in here. some kind of overly, self-critical-analysis. that tears through the blue. and there’s some kind of gratitude. but it’s laced with, something incapacitating, pulled tight, stretched taut, strummed […]
Posted in heart, motherhood, Parenting, private bits on Feb 11th, 2010
December 21st 2009 Somewhere in between planning festivities and ticking the gifts that are done and the gifts that are yet to be done came this tiny little voice telling me that my heart feels like it’s going to burst. No… I don’t mean a clichéd version of joytotheeffenworld aww look aint that liddleangel so […]
Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them. – Mary Schmich I’ve been waiting and dreading And yet also dreaming of the day You would ask me this question. The day you would come to me for advice, Flushed and heady, sparkling eyes, Full of that somebody new. What will […]
Posted in heart, memories, November, sixteen, women, Writing on Nov 7th, 2009
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours. -Mary Schmich My post today is double inspired by Mary and Dear Me Books. Dear sixteen year old Carla, Today all the wobbly Aunties are going to pinch your cheeks and cough up a lame old […]