Caroline

Six years ago my dad passed away at 1:00am on October 24, 2018. I was 40 years old and had so many reasons to be grateful he was my father here for 4 decades. [...]

One of my twins read George Orwell's classic novel 1984 in Senior Lit class. We live with openness and transparency in our house. She said, "Not to freak you out, Mama, but this strange [...]

Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things –For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;Landscape plotted and [...]

I have a daughter who sees straight through to my core. She often is the source of my unraveling— I spool outwardly in response to her emotional needs, or unfurl in laughter with her [...]

It’s like she finds a string at the edge of my shirt hem and says — “Let me help you, Mama” — but the loosened string unfurls the hem. “Turn this way” — she [...]

This quivering tree is starting to change color in the parking lot near a fresh sushi place by our high school and while my daughter went next door to buy a few things from [...]

A memory from three years ago, when my eldest was a senior in high school. Now, my twins are seniors, and on the cusp of their own adventures and experiences as they graduate in [...]

My newest story, Amsterdam Serenade, is now available for preorder: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR929XX6 While growing up on a small farm in the province of Friesland, hundreds of kilometers north of Amsterdam, Jacoba dreamed of what city [...]

Remember the Reason we celebrate...remember the Christ child. In the midst of busyness, amid the overwhelming noise of the season, is Peace. All we have ever needed is at hand, in our presence:  the [...]

I realized something while watching "It's a Wonderful Life" recently. It was something I missed the first 326 times I watched it. That is, I think the hero of the story isn't George, it's [...]