“The life of a mother is the life of a child:  you are two blossoms on a single branch” – Karen Maezen Miller, Momma Zen:  Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood

I’m heading out on a road trip tomorrow—a real, week-long one that will take me halfway across this country.  Never have done anything like this before.  But there’s the matter of this dress, and this young woman who needs to get her car to Houston, and her compulsive mom who has an obsession with putting things in order before she lets go of them.  This is hard stuff, much more difficult than I could have imagined, yet somehow exhilarating.  Like jumping of a cliff. […]