by Molly Huggins | Sep 26, 2013 | Army Life, Blogging, Faith, Fear, Grief, Hope, Our Story
My daddy is a storyteller. A veritable Chaucer he is, his theatrics trapped in a failing body. The stories he tells, they define me. And in the telling, he wanders between truth and theater with ease, often sacrificing a little of one for a lot of another. A necessary...
by Molly Huggins | Aug 21, 2013 | Aha Moments, Army Life, Faith, Fear, Grief, Hope
We are promised to each other for a little more than eight years now – and in those three thousand and ten days, {give or take a few}, we’ve spent a little less than half of them whole worlds apart. The separation of days makes riches of the extraordinary...
by Molly Huggins | Aug 3, 2013 | Faith, Grief, Hope, Lives We Love
{Editor’s Note: I’m writing specifically here of the loss of a child … but beloved, as always, I tell you that Truth is unchanging, and while grief is universal, so too, is the grace. My memories here are of our my own wee babes in heaven, one gone...
by Molly Huggins | May 28, 2013 | Army Life, Dreams, Grief, Original J, Our Story
It’s the day after Memorial Day. {I am a wee bit late … it’s been tough going on the pregnant front these days.} But I do have something to say … It’s profoundly personal for me. I have written about Jaime here, here, and here. Please, I would love for you...
by Molly Huggins | Apr 19, 2013 | Blogging, Faith, Fear, Grief, Hope
What a week. The Boston Marathon. West, Texas. Ricin letters. And now the unfolding manhunt in Boston as I type. It feels vaguely apocalyptic, no? `I haven’t written much … it is overwhelming, and we have a few other things going on here. Others have...
by Molly Huggins | Apr 6, 2013 | Army Life, Faith, Fear, Grief, Hope, Jamester, Mommy Heart, Our Story
From November 2008 to November of 2009, my husband and I were both deployed to different parts of the world. The J Girl spent the year with my older sister and her husband. She was one and a half when we dropped her off. She was two and half when we picked her up....
