The things a mother does well are always invisible compared to the things she does badly.

I open my eyes to darkness so complete that for a moment I think I haven’t opened them at all.

The future is way up in the air right now.

Exits on roads were blocked off for a hundred miles, you had to keep going and couldn't look back.

They were always funny, ... She could always make me laugh.

They don't have any power. The water is still rising as we speak.

A hundred, to a kindergartner, is hard to understand. We can tell them that a dollar is a hundred pennies, but to them, it's just a piece of paper. We show them.

These are the words that I keep coming back to. This was when I knew the situation would be out of our hands.

And we count days every day. We use number words, numerals and counting sticks. Today, we made our first bundle of 100. That's big for us.

The day was a real eye-opener and cultural stretch for me.