Joanna and Her Harp, with attitude

It’s been three years now, as hard as it is to believe.  (Over three years since someone is so tardy on  blogging!) Three years of life and all the changes that go along with  it.  Three years that they’ve spent navigating rush hour in DC,  decorating their first home in the suburbs, establishing routines filled…

She wanted to climb high, reach higher, find a new path, forge her own way. One handhold at a time, from ledge to ledge, inching her way up the barely scale-able wall of red crusty rock.  She tried to do it on her own, she really did. But she couldn’t: she couldn’t do it on…

Caeden looked over his mom’s shoulder, his eyes lighting up.  Although already an gentle, easy-going, loving-life baby full of smiles and giggles, his grin grew even larger as he saw what was walking toward him.   I couldn’t quite understand it, and Valerie saw my puzzled look and turned to see what was walking up behind…

Sunshine flitted around the park, laughing at the dancing leaves. She darted from shadow to shadow, leaving happiness  and cheery brightness in her wake. Oh, and the squirrels.  She was mesmerized by the furry-tailed squirrels.  Sunshine isn’t just the unexpected  airy golden nectar of a British Columbia October, she’s also the energetic, furry taled, perfectly-behaved…