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My Sister’s Legacy and God’s Love Lives On in a Dress

Fifteen years ago there lived three best friends. Three girls who lived to be together. They had grown up together, found community with each other,…

I am a grown orphan . . . or at least that’s how it feels. I know technically the definition of an orphan is a person, specifically a child,…

We knew it was coming. There were signs along the way that we so badly wanted to ignore, but they were becoming so glaringly obvious. We were not…

In one second of twisted fate, my pregnancy ended. At 39-weeks pregnant, my baby’s heart stopped silently in my womb. Her enthusiastic kicks faded…

Have you ever noticed how much our lives intertwine with our mothers’? Every detail, every event, every emotion, every milestone. Our mothers…

Folding the laundry gets me down sometimes. It’s a mindless activity, really. My brain runs on autopilot as it remembers the old days when laundry…

My mom was an essential, treasured part of my early motherhood. This bond took root in my own childhood as I was the grateful recipient of and…

I let my 15-year-old daughter get a tattoo, and no, I don’t care what anybody has to say about it. Documenting important events in the form of…

Two months ago, I lost my mom. She was my best friend and has always been my person in life. You really can’t prepare yourself for something…

Sometimes I have to remind myself to breathe. I have to take myself out of that moment. The one from two years ago when I lost my mother. The moment…