I have returned once again to the Mancave. “Frozen” has finished. Girls tucked. I recline in my sitting chair. Let it snow. Let it go. Let…. This night is different. ALL are here. The past week has been unlike any. Hours spent in the back of a truck seeking elusive documents, hours spent struggling to […]

Driving the kids to school on another Friday. “Goodbye.” “Make good choices.” “Love you.” Now off to work. As I head South on Oak Ridge Highway my eyes are drawn toward a yellow break in the clouds. A white puffy jet stream streaks through the sky. As I slow for a red light I realize […]

Lenia still isn’t home. She waits on a mountain in Haiti sleeping in a room with eight friends, going to school for “most” of a day, and wonders if Abby and I are serious when we say “You are going to come and live with us.” It was our wish that she would join Abby […]