by JAC | Nov 20, 2018 | Diary, Love and Loss
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. Reinhold Niebuhr My recent minimalist kick led me to cleaning out a huge closet that had boxes of mementos and letters. One of them has all of the sympathy cards I received...
by JAC | Oct 31, 2018 | Publications
I’ve been contemplating what it means to love my little girl in the tween phase versus in the early childhood stage and I wrote a piece about it. “Do you think you’re a good mother?” he asked. It was a year after my husband had suddenly died, and my daughter was...
by JAC | Oct 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
When Audrey was a newborn, I’d wake up each morning, so surprised and excited that I had a baby, and that there she still was, beside me. I wondered, though, if one day, maybe months, or years from then, I would forget that she was new, and hadn’t been...
by JAC | Sep 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
” In the waiting, we come to know ourselves more deeply: who we really are, what we hope for, and who we’ll become.” Grok Nation published a short piece of mine yesterday. It’s about the waiting we do as women in different seasons of our lives,...
by JAC | Sep 8, 2018 | Linked Publication, Love and Loss, Publications
Modern Loss published a short piece of mine today. I wrote it last spring about an experience a whole year before. Like many of my pieces, it began really with a question that the writing process helped me to address. I was frustrated and wondering why I still had to...
