A thumb-sucking baby perched on the back of this chair twirling my hair with her finger
and a small girl waits to tell her story...
Sandwiched between words for the second-born's spelling test
is discussion with a boy whose mission has only one requirement: his very life.
A small sweating boy sticks to my legs watching pictures...
all while a hymn keeps time softly in the background.
...this is a picture of this homeschooling mommy today.
In my Commonplace...
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"For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sor of
lifelong pregnancy-- a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous
feeling out of ...