Leaving Home: Short Pieces

This is 2 short fiction stories with the note the author actually wrote to her son when he went to college sandwiched between them. There is a common thread to these written pieces. That thread is Leaving Home.

The first story, in my opinion, has 2 instances of leaving home. One unthinkably heart wrenching and one heartbreaking but was a choice. The ending does have me a bit confused. My tired brain(I was pretty exhausted when reading this) wondered if this was a science fiction ending. The more aware brain today sees the growing wife and shrinking husband as more of a metaphor.

The Note is what resonated the most with me. It puts to words things that I feel for my children and worry I don't convey and wont' be able to convey. More over, there is such great advice. Advice that is sadly missing from today's society.

The last story is probably my favorite. Right from the start I had a really good idea what the mom was doing. I can see so many moms in today's society feeling the way this mom feels but never doing anything to change it. Most moms today would not “go on vacation” for fear that their families just wouldn't care. I love that this family pulled together and saw the lesson for what it was and went to “get her back”. I love MOST that in the end the family takes the time to bond and enjoy vacation instead of rushing back to “real life”.