If You Fear Becoming Your Mother, Remember the Cycle Ends With You
How desperately I wish you could read this as you stand at the precipice of parenthood. I know how scared…
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How desperately I wish you could read this as you stand at the precipice of parenthood. I know how scared…
Continue ReadingThis is eight years. A picture taken in the few minutes of pre-dawn quiet before toddler chaos ensues. A few…
Continue ReadingIn my kitchen sits a soup pot. It’s great for when I make soups, which if I’m being honest is…
Continue ReadingEvery May, I wrestle with, what is for me, the most highly fraught holiday of the year—Mother’s Day. As I…
Continue ReadingIn front of me in line, stood a mother and her toddler, who was doing all the things young children…
Continue ReadingTo my Poppy, Even though we never met I can clearly picture you. I can see my dimples in your…
Continue ReadingOn a recent Sunday, my husband, son, and I headed to a friend’s house under the guise of watching football.…
Continue ReadingNaptime—the sacred, uninterrupted period of time when I can focus on accomplishing at least some of my to-do list. Usually…
Continue ReadingThere it sat on the doorstep, an innocuous, small, brown box holding something so small yet so emotionally heavy. Inside…
Continue ReadingI don’t know how many times I’ve been asked the same question, THE question. The one I have grown accustomed…
Continue ReadingRecently I was posed a question: “How in your life have you experienced the grace of God?” Immediately, my heart…
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