An Excerpt from "Lift"

"I heard once that the average person barely knows ten stories from childhood and those are based more on photographs and retellings than memory.  So even with all the videos we take, the two boxes of snapshots under my desk, and the 1,276 photos in folders on the computer, you'll be lucky to end up with a dozen stories.  You won't remember how it started with us, the things I know about you that you don't even know about yourselves. We won't come back here.

You'll remember middle school and high school, but you'll have changed by then.  You changing will make me change.  That means you won't ever know me as I am right now -- the mother I am tonight and tomorrow, the mother I've been for the last eight years, every bath and book and birthday party, gone.  It won't hit you that you're missing this chapter of our story until you see me push your child on a swing or untangle his jump rope or wave a bee away from his head and think, Is this what she was like with me?"

Go to www.kellycorrigan.com and click on "videos" -- I promise you'll fall in love with Kelly!