This Is How to Show Up for a Friend Who Has Cancer
One moment I was wrestling with my toddler and rocking my 3-month-old to sleep, and the next I was staring…
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One moment I was wrestling with my toddler and rocking my 3-month-old to sleep, and the next I was staring…
Continue ReadingI had a dream about my mom last night. It’s rare when this happens but last night's dream was unlike…
Continue ReadingYou think it’s going to be the big holidays that are hard. The first Thanksgiving without her. The first Christmas.…
Continue ReadingMy mom died at the age of 45. Yes, just 45. Around Mother's Day, the reality of just how young…
Continue ReadingI’ve been in this motherless daughter club for over a decade now. Most of the time, that still seems strange…
Continue ReadingTrigger warning: post discusses death and loss The cool air shocked my sweltering face as I walked into the doors…
Continue Reading“I take you for my lawful wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse,…
Continue ReadingHolidays. Birthdays. The day they physically left us. These are the ones that hit the hardest—the toughest days. But they…
Continue ReadingFor those of you reading this who do not know me, on January 28, 2021, at 12:20 p.m., my husband…
Continue ReadingIt’s so utterly destructive. It’ll knock the wind—no the very oxygen—out of your sails. It’s nauseating. Conflicting. Terrifying. And so…
Continue ReadingAs I write this, my mother-in-law is in the ICU. We don’t expect her to leave. She’s too young. Sixty-four.…
Continue ReadingOh, the inevitable, as we age into our mid to late 30s and beyond. The natural series of life states…
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