Kristin Wagner is a mother and a former high school English teacher who writes creative non-fiction, most often drawing on motherhood, food, pop culture and chronic illness. She has been published on Full Grown People, Literary Mama, Quail Bell Magazine and Mother Always Write. She posts regularly at kristindemarcowagner.com and can be found on Twitter as @kcdemarcowagner. She is currently working on a memoir about living on the edge of illness and health.
A hurricane is coming. Rita is in the Gulf of Mexico and is approaching Houston at a slow but steady pace of nine miles an hour. I don’t have many, or any, illusions that God and Jesus will see us through.