8.28.06
Today my babycarrot sister marries the man who loves her loudly and endlessly, and wonderfully. The man who consistently makes her laugh until she cries.
Today I get to officially call Brother Will, “brother,” with the ceremony and legal documentation to “prove” it.
Today I get to see my little sister so happy that there is no [...]

She remembers seven years ago like it was this afternoon.
She can still see him falling, vessels in his head screaming at him, screaming at her, in a single moment eradicating his ability to stand on legs once strong and lean.
She sat outside on the patio after opening gifts and told Chris and I stories both [...]

But first! My additon to this week’s SPF, and she chose feet! FEET! And not just any feet! “YOUR feet!” And, as some of you have noticed and commented on in the past, I just so happen to possess an affinity for taking pictures of mine (and everyone else’s) feet. This particular shot I [...]

The lack of posts the past few days can mostly be attributed to the fact that (I have some blockage of the writer’s artery, yes, and also) said days have marked my last few days in Bama, my last few days to spend with Chris.
This afternoon I fly out of Gulfport, Mississippi (because flying out [...]

On Tuesday of this week we trekked to the FloriBama coastline, to bask in the 90 degree heat, and to generally just cover ourselves with sand and salt water.
Upon driving to said coastline Chris was so excited he was about to wet his pants.

Ok, so I made up the pants-wetting part. He was more just [...]

“They are passing, posthaste, the gliding years…The years are passing my dear, and presently no one will know what you and I know.” -Vladmir Nabokov

Dad,
It is eleven years now since the April we lost you to icy river water. Eleven years since [...]

Greetings! y’all from the land O’ sweet tea, oak trees, and gators.
I did indeed arrive safely to Mobile late Wednesday night, and, no doubt thanks to all of your good flight juju, was blessed with three wonderful legs of my journey, journeying legs boasting of non-full flights, extra leg room and two amicable Southern ladies [...]

We need people to get us. To see us. To know what we mean when we say we feel helpless. When we say we feel empty, or isolated, quiet, or stir-crazy. When we say we feel unkind, horrible, unlovable, and we mean it. When we say we feel to the moon! sort of excited, thankful, [...]

Sometimes I swear I would have saved him.
Swear I could have rescued his breath from the icy depths into which he voluntarily dove, if only he had provided me the opportunity to play Fearless, to play Savior. I was twelve at the time, almost thirteen. I knew how to act older. I was a good [...]

Tonight babycarrot sister will forever be wearing a sparkly on her left ring finger.
Tonight my baby carrot sister is engaged! (Tonight I am fighting the urge to use an abundance! of! exclamation!
points!)
And thus, tonight my baby carrot sister isn’t so baby anymore.
But even while I know that she has grown, and that soon I will [...]