Writings from Áine Greaney

  Photo Credit: Šárka Krňávková on Unsplash This expressive writing piece was published in "Who Am I Today?" The book is an anthology of 40 women's writing from the Women's Writing Circle, Center for Health and Human Rights, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts.    For more of Áine's published writing and teaching information, visit her  author website .  © Under U.S. copyright laws, it is illegal to copy or re-use this text without the author's permission.  *** A Faithful Heart  Today I am sitting on the sea wall watching four swans and watching the hours and minutes until it’s time to drive my husband to the hospital for another outpatient surgery. A new swan glides into view.   Now they are five. Today will be the fifth hospital trip. From those other visits I remember silly things, like that Saturday-night ER waiting room where none of us met each other’s eyes. Or that snack machine where the potato chips jammed and that I body slammed to rel