The Homes We Drove Past

"There are children-of-divorce, and then there are children-who-follow-a-divorce, 

who have their own experience of its aftermath… 

conceived only after the split and merging of two other families,

 and born from the fact of their devastation."

"The Homes We Drove Past"

Full Grown People

Rebecca Altman

When the Raspberries Come

"Until I had children, I had been out of touch with cycles and seasons, disconnected from the ecological system of which I am a part. But since I’d become a mother, I’d grown into the habit of juxtaposing our lives with the lifecycle of our raspberries. They had become timekeepers, steady and sure during the disordered days of early motherhood."

From "When the Raspberries Come"

Brain, Child Magazine