Author: Chara Donahue Last year my four year-old came running at me as I laid reading, and she jumped with reckless abandon onto my back. Normally, this would have been benign, but this time her elbow struck the tissue sandwiched between two of my vertebrae. The result of which was nerve damage the doctor said…
Tag: Motherhood
Ballade of Bleached Blemishes
If we can make laundry poetic it makes it better, right? Well, here’s hoping. 😉 I cannot face it. I will not look. Let it be. I will not take the bait or tease the hook. The stress, it mounts thinly—layer by layer—I will flee. No, I will fight. I fold the shirt. I…
Hope on Mother’s Day
Author: Chara Donahue It was 12:30 AM Mother’s Day 2005, our first as husband and wife, and we were in the ER. I was bleeding; I was pregnant, but they were telling me I wouldn’t be for much longer. There was no heartbeat. I stared at the wall, and my husband prayed. It felt like…
Anchored Voices 