A girl is there. Dressed in a dirty rag of a dress, turning to look at him with the large, gold eyes that have studied everything from the rafters. Her hair in the overhead light appears dark for an i...
Your life is what you make of it, with God’s grace, the good and the bad.
Returns to the warmth of the bed, the resented comfort of sleep.
Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all.
St. Brigid’s Island perched like a jagged accident above the water, all grass and rock, no beach to ease the passage of a boat, no harbor to shelter it once there. Twelve miles west of Ireland, at tim...