For you, Mamas.
In the cool breeze of the tropical morning, mothers in our village rise before the call to prayer, they are up long before the sun. Mothers bend, their soft brown foreheads touching the thick woven...
View ArticleWhat we already know but still don’t believe…
I don’t read women’s magazines very often. I certainly don’t buy them. Sometimes I flick through one when I’m standing in line for the checkout at the supermarket, but that rarely ever happens these...
View ArticleFull of yourself?
Social media is running rife. It controls so much of what we do. So many times I hear, hang on, just hold it right there so I can take a picture and put it on instagram… All you have to do is look...
View ArticleMonica Markovina
When I asked Monica Markovina if I could commission her to create a new logo for Inked, I knew I would need to be prepared for being challenged creatively. Monica’s work is spectacular, her drawings...
View ArticleComing home.
We’ve been home for over a week now. To say I felt like the earth had been lifted out from under me when we returned home, would be a glorious understatement. Travel does this to me, to most of us, I...
View Articleinto the light
photo by the beautiful Emma Galloway of MDLT On my bathroom mirror is a little quote scrawled on a scrap of paper and taped to the glass. It reads, ‘you will find that it is necessary to let things go,...
View ArticleDefine me
One of the first questions I am asked whenever I meet someone is, ‘what do you do (as a profession)?’ It’s an obsession that we have in our culture, as if what we do somehow defines who we truly are....
View ArticleDear Bo,
Dear Bo, It’s been more than three months since my last little letter to you. Not long ago though, you checked off your first quarter of your third year of life. You’ve become more verbal and more...
View ArticleA community driven by a mothers heart…
It took me a long time to find and become even a tiny part of a community that felt like home. After I returned from Indonesia I felt displaced, for lots of reasons, and I was desperate to find a place...
View Articlewaves and tides
“There’s something about the thousands of glittering lights, the veil of nighttime that almost makes this place beautiful, especially in the reflection of the water. It makes everything askew,...
View ArticleWhen things go wrong
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come...
View ArticleTo Sisterhood
“Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.” ― E.B....
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