The First Time I Saw Him

The first time I saw my newborn child was not the perfect fairy-tale dream I had been sold. It was the total opposite.

The Letter

When I was a child I used to write letters a lot. I adored checking the mailbox and finding a handwritten letter addressed to me. Well, I don’t handwrite so much these days, but recently I reconnected with my Gran through letter writing, and it is so wonderful.