Cheesecake with cherries and I won’t go away….

By jennifer | July 2, 2016 |

I want a quick time-out to say plain what this story is not. I’m not moralizing;  don’t have an agenda. If I ever carry a sign,  it would be to champion hope. Women face impossible decisions and need a tender grace, not oversimplified,  whitewashed shoulds. I’m pro-life.  Pro-choice.  Pro-solution.  Pro-people. There isn’t a whisp of politics about any of this;…

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To write through the window…………

By jennifer | June 19, 2016 |

The windows are open to a warm October afternoon as the phone rings and I’m startled  by the sound of the roar in my head as my eyes land on the caller ID and see my hand  lift the receiver. Children’s Home Society of N.C. I answer in slow motion, feeling the turn of the earth as a season changes. ~  ~  ~  ~  ~ She’d just turned 18 the last…

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