• lauren wrote about the word motel 2 years, 9 months ago

    We walked to the motel from downtown. We mostly sat in silence, without saying a word. There wasn’t and still isn’t much to say. I appreciate your visiting, but I can’t give everything to you. I am waiting.

  • lauren wrote about the word pouch 2 years, 9 months ago

    He returned from China in November, had been there since September. She ran up to him and gave him a big hug. She was so excited to finally have her father home. He gave to her the smallest of bags, hand-sewn with intricacies she wouldn’t even see until years later. The only thing she knew [...]

  • lauren wrote about the word den 2 years, 9 months ago

    We sat in the den and watched zombie films for hours and hours. It was warm there. We knew we were safe there. Every time a zombie appeared on the telly screen, you jolted me and tried to startle me. It worked every time. I squealed and giggled. After the films, we sat on the [...]

  • lauren wrote about the word tilt 2 years, 9 months ago

    We were at the fair. I begged you to come with me on the tilt-a-whirl, a ride you have never made it through. You finally agreed. We climbed into our steel shell and the ride began. I was laughing and smiling; this was my favourite ride at any fair, the first one I went one. [...]

  • lauren wrote about the word stroller 2 years, 9 months ago

    I peered down at yo, sitting in your stroller. You hollered and hollered, and I remember wondering if I was that collicky when I was small. I ran with you. I pushed the stroller, not too hard, though. I ran you around the front yard and you started giggling. I heard and didn’t have to [...]

  • lauren posted an update: 2 years, 9 months ago

    watercolours!

  • lauren wrote about the word calling 2 years, 9 months ago

    I was calling you from a hard plastic seat in the terminal at Gate C. Detroit. You were the only person I knew to call, because I didn’t feel like talking, and I knew I could count on you to talk to me and let me just soak in peace and light and simply listen. [...]

  • lauren and apple are now friends 2 years, 9 months ago

  • lauren became a registered member 2 years, 9 months ago