June 2018 – Caroline Mitchell Carrico

Other mom

Dear other mother, I cannot fathom the depth of your grief and confusion. Nor can I understand the nuances of your story, what made it a better option to take the substantial risk to leave your home and come to foreign land with your child instead of living in the home you’ve known. I cannotContinue reading “Other mom”

“There is more to life than the perfunctory, mechanical, aspirational day-to-day vibe. Behind it all is a passion that gets you up in the morning or keeps you up at night. You let the gifts inside of you pour out.” Today I had the privilege of conversing with Rabbi Micah Greenstein at Temple Israel. IContinue reading “More”

That girl

That girl looks so much like my girl. I recognize her curls and her reaching hand. I know her pink shoes. What I thankfully don’t recognize on my own girl’s face is the fear. Since I’ve first seen the picture, we’ve all learned more about the girl and her mother. We know parts of theirContinue reading “That girl”

It’s been a minute.

It’s been a year since I posted here. Despite starting a writing group (that has morphed into the lowest obligation book club imaginable), I haven’t done much writing at all. What I have been doing is reading, which has been even more reckless than usual–jumping from sociological studies of how race and class influence southernContinue reading “It’s been a minute.”