childhood
Shaping Identity: Belonging
by Sara Whitestone With a splash, I step off the anchored boat. Bobbing in the warm Atlantic waters, I check my equipment one more time,
October 30, 2019
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R&S family
family
Thankfulness
by Sara Whitestone This piece was originally published by GFT Press. Of all my States of Mind, Virginia is the hardest to unmix—to cipher down
November 20, 2018
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Abbie Smith
Postpartum
Prior to having kids I judged parents who snapped at their kids. Now I empathize, and beg for the grace to be compassionate and slow to anger. My two children have taken me to the brink of a boiling point I didn’t know was there.
September 21, 2017
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change
Make it New: A New Adaptation
Being a parent is hard. We never have it all figured out, even when we’ve done it well in the past.
May 25, 2017
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family
Make it New: Goals
We are stripping our house layer by layer, occasionally stopping to wonder out loud if it feels like we’re trying to erase her and purify this space. Our mother is in every facet of the house; she picked the colors, sewed the curtains herself (one handed, no less), and embroidered half of the wall decorations.
April 11, 2017
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Art and Faith
Remembered Sounds: Of Breaking and Healing
But it was music that drew out her deepest emotions, her greatest performances. When we were very young, she would sing to us at night the saddest songs you can imagine.
March 30, 2017
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