by suelarkinsweems | Feb 5, 2013 | Mumblings and Misadventures
Linking up with Amber’s series on concrete abstractions. Today’s prompt: Box She says to write about boxes, and I recoil. I follow a sailor around the globe, and boxes dominate the hard moments of my life, rife with difficult goodbyes and rocky beginnings....
by suelarkinsweems | Feb 4, 2013 | On Family
On New Year’s Day, we pried the kids away from their friends and screens and headed a bit north. Our first stop was Zakimi-Jo Castle Ruins. The castle was built in the 15th century by Aji Gosamaru. According to several sources, it was built as a boundary to check the...
by suelarkinsweems | Jan 29, 2013 | The Poetry
{Linking up with Amber Haines at The Run Amuck to share concrete words, where we practice writing by communicating the abstract through concrete things…thank you, Amber!} At the edge of Flowing Springs The water hardly flows past the jumping boulder anymore Old...
by suelarkinsweems | Jan 10, 2013 | Mumblings and Misadventures
The weirdest thing happened when I came to Okinawa. Most of my new friends have older children—middle school, high school, college age, and *gulp* adults. I don’t have any preschoolers for the first time in twelve years. I can feel our family teetering on the edge of...
by suelarkinsweems | Dec 30, 2012 | On Family
A few weeks ago, the kids and I went down to the chapel on the base where we live to “help” with a Christmas party for a local orphanage. The chapel children’s group was going to sing during the short program, and I prepared Ransom and Memphis for the possibility that...
