by Mary Carey | Aug 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
This is a true story. There is a farmer who goes into a workshop every day. In this workshop he makes perfectly wooden spheres. This is a very complicated task requiring knowledge of hypotenuse’s and cosines and other geometric terms whose meanings escape me. This...
by Mary Carey | Aug 13, 2016 | Adoption, Compassion, Guilt, Parenthood
I had known some of the lesser should’s—I should have slept more last night, shouldn’t have brought that up, I should let him know—the minor leagues. In 1999 I met the World Champion Should’s when I became a parent. One day I wasn’t a mother, and the next, I was the...
by Mary Carey | Aug 8, 2016 | attachment, grieving, Motherhood, Parenthood, parenting
I talked myself down from the ledge at least seventy-five times this week. The talks come about because of one recurring, torturous thought: “They are leaving me.” They are my children who are leaving for college in one week. They are healthy and relatively happy. ...