Window Thinking

March 13, 2013

Hanging Out My Laundry: thankyouthankyouthankyou!!

Ethan and I were in the hospital the morning after his birth when the doctor on call for our family practice clinic came to check on him. I was surprised to see this doctor because he did not practice in our clinic, but at a clinic in a nearby town. He’s a long time family …

March 10, 2013

I’m Pregnant But Don’t Tell My Mom: A Broken Hallelujah

brain injury, Grief, Window Thinking

I had a bunch of broken ribs when I was pregnant with Ethan. I have no memory of the car accident that broke the ribs, but I remember the first trimester + broken ribs. I found out I was pregnant the day before the accident. After a long, hot June Saturday tromping through central Oregon …

March 1, 2013

Marking 6 Months and Finding Home

Window Thinking

The word home summons up a place….that you have rich and complex feelings about, a place where you feel, or did feel once, uniquely at home, which is to say a place where you feel you belong and that in some sense belongs to you, a place where you feel that all is somehow ultimately …

February 15, 2013

Hope In Half A Banana

Grief, hope, Window Thinking

I think we lose sight of the beauty, the most beautiful things I look back on in my life are coming out from underneath things I didn’t know I could get out from underneath. You know, the moments I look back in my life, and think, those were the moments that made me — were …

February 1, 2013

Losing the Map and Finding the Way Home

brain injury, Window Thinking

I saw a picture of a handsome curly-haired birthday boy on Facebook last week. When his Teacher-Mom took her maternity leave 10 years ago, I took my first teaching job – hired to teach her 4th grade class. I loved teaching. The challenges, the relationships, the creativity, the opportunities. My imagination easily skipped ahead and framed …