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Getting Through the Holidays as a Motherless Daughter

Before my mother died but when she was very sick, I was dropping my son off at daycare. When we arrived, there was another little boy who had just…

I remember you all too well. I remember the cheerleader, the girl who couldn’t wait for the winter formal, and then the prom. I see you looking at…

Dear Mom, I’ll never forget the day you were diagnosed with cancer. Neither of us cried. I’m not sure if it was because we were just too numb…

Dear cancer, Two years ago today, you came into my life when I was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, or ACC, a rare salivary gland cancer.…

Mom groups often get a bad name for being catty, judgy, or full of multi-level marketing schemes—and to be honest, a few of them can be like that.…

For most children, the concept of death is introduced with the death of a pet, an elderly grandparent or perhaps a poor raccoon spotted on the side…

We are NOT what has happened to us or what this world says we are. That is not what defines us. While we are grieving parents, that is not what our…

I tried to wean off of Zoloft and couldn’t. And that’s OK. I had never really been aware of the world of antidepressants. My life has been…

Most people never get to meet their heroes. I have, in fact—I have met many heroes. These heroes didn’t set out for…

My diagnosis with breast cancer came as such a shock that my imagination failed me. I could not look at my chest and see spindly-armed tumors…