JOANNA NORLAND: Dot-to-Dot

You worked at dot-to-dots in the hospital while I went to school.

“There are never enough dots,” you raged.

Last night, I looked at the sky and thought: You will never run out again. Then I taped an extra star to my window, just in case you do.

Joanna Norland is a Canadian playwright and writing coach based in East Sussex, UK. She is the author of “Lizzy, Darcy and Jane,” and “Mothers Have Nine Lives,” and writes about the intersection of writing and parenthood on www.mumswrite.com.