Author: Sara Wright

Graduating grief, part 2

The finger prints that cover my laptop screen have a story to tell. But I’m not listening. I tell them I’ll wipe them off later, when I catch up with life and have it all together. You know that time and place? We can all meet...

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Graduating grief, part 1

I don’t want to lose my daughter to college next year. I’m already losing her to her real life and it breaks my heart every day. I am becoming the periphery, though loved and cherished. She’s got me mostly at arm’s length. I...

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Purr through this

I woke in thick layers of dreams. One long slow cup of strong black tea later, and I felt my brain turn on at last. It hovers beside me and does my dirty work. It runs through my to-do list while the rest of me purrs inside the...

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