sleepless Archives - Darcy Wiley

Finding Islands {Gift from the Sea 3: Moon Shell}

by Darcy Wiley | Jun 25, 2012 | Buttons & Thread, Gift from the Sea ~ Summer Book Club 2012, Pencils & Pens, Pocket Change, Sweet Tea

Within the first ten minutes, while the hood of the van cooled under the shade of a palm tree, she broke free from our grasp and went for the deep end. She steadied herself upright in her life jacket and churned her legs through the water like the blades of a boat...

Road Tripping Mama

by Darcy Wiley | May 21, 2012 | Pocket Change, Sweet Tea

My husband may as well have been driving us through the construction lane, dodging orange barrels and steamrollers, quaking the tires over unfinished asphalt, and slamming the brakes every 30 seconds, because that’s what my brain felt like it was doing with the...