Dear Son, As You Turn 16
It's the physical touch I think I miss most. The weight of an infant on my hip. The softness of…
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It's the physical touch I think I miss most. The weight of an infant on my hip. The softness of…
Continue Reading14 is sulking shoulders, guttural sighs, melodramatic eye rolls when you can't tell the difference between Josh Dun and Tyler…
Continue ReadingWhen he's 15, you may find him texting heart emojis to a girl you’ve never heard him mention before. Curiously,…
Continue ReadingIn the cold blue morning light, my 15-year-old son sleeps. Lanky limbs sprawled across the couch, gray boxers peeking out…
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Continue ReadingWe carry a growing embryo in our bodies for nine months, battling morning sickness, heartburn, lower back pain, and dubious…
Continue ReadingLife is good. Summer air feels warm and sweet on bare shoulders. Screen doors slam. Watermelon stains my children's chins…
Continue ReadingHunched over the kitchen sink, beneath the dingy glow of fluorescent light, the wave hits me. I'm washing spoons caked…
Continue ReadingThe year is 1996. I’m sitting in my college’s guidance office in a gauzy babydoll dress, rocking Clinique’s Almost lipstick…
Continue ReadingYes, I am blessed. Yes, I adore my achingly adorable, healthy, smart, well-rounded offspring. Yes, I shouldn’t complain, but I’m…
Continue ReadingMy son used to scream as a baby if I wasn’t in his line of site, or holding him in…
Continue ReadingCagey and quick, like a leopard, I'm ducking behind bleachers and hiding in the shadows watching a group of sweaty…
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