Angela Williams Glenn, Author at Her View From Home

Grief, Living
April 6, 2020
6 Minute Read

We’re All Grieving—And That’s OK

A friend told me what we’re all going through with this pandemic is like a grieving process. I don’t think, until she said that to me, that I…

Living
December 28, 2019
3 Minute Read

I Don’t Want a New Me For the New Year

Ten years ago when we were getting ready to ring in 2009, I had just found out our first baby was a girl. I had also recently just turned 27 and…

Faith, Loss
December 11, 2019
7 Minute Read

On the Unknown Road, God Walks Beside Me

It’s been five years. Five years this month since the first miscarriage happened. I took it pretty well, but if I would have known how it was just…

Kids, Motherhood
October 13, 2019
4 Minute Read

These Days Will Be Gone in a Blink

Some days, I think about how one day when the kids are older we’ll have more money, we’ll have more time, we’ll have a cleaner…

Grown Children, Motherhood
August 10, 2019
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4 Minute Read

Better Late Than Never: An Apology to My Mother

Dear Mom, I didn’t begin to understand the unrealistic impossible expectations I put on you. I would easily forgive Dad’s transgressions. He…

Kids, Teen, Tween
June 17, 2019
660 Views
4 Minute Read

Why Youth Sports Grow Strong Girls

I spent the summers of my youth on a ball diamond night in and night out. I spent most of my playing days as a confident player, but there were those…

Living, Loss
May 13, 2019
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3 Minute Read

You Don’t Always Have to Be Strong

I know many women raised to be strong today. They were raised to power through and to fight back. So many of us wear our strength like an armor in a…

Kids
December 19, 2018
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5 Minute Read

To the Child Who Isn’t Always Easy, I Was Just Like You

I looked into your hazel eyes that were turning greener by the minute as they pooled with tears, and as I looked into eyes so like my own, I saw the…

Living
October 30, 2018
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3 Minute Read

I Tried to Outrun My Anxiety

If I checked my list again. If I could mark something else off my list, if I was busy enough to be distracted, if I took care of it rather than…

Journal, Relationships
September 2, 2018
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6 Minute Read

It’s Never Too Late to Start Building a Stronger Marriage

In the balancing act of motherhood, I often feel the role I sacrifice the most is that of wife. I do “wife” things, but I feel that…