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I’m Grieving the Mother I Deserved While Loving the One I Was Given

My mother is bipolar. Not as a punchline to a joke, but genuinely, medically diagnosed as bipolar. She has been my whole life though we didn’t…

“Why do they look so tall all of a sudden?” I asked my friend as we trailed her twin 8-year-old boys down a hallway recently. …

Dear Mom, Today I came home from the hospital with my brand-new baby boy. As my weak postpartum body hobbled in the front door, there you were,…

Joy, frustration, pride, worry, heartbreak—they all play a role in the drama that is motherhood. Unbelievably, I’ve been acting out my role of…

It’s a bizarre thing to mother your mother. I constantly worry if she is sad, if she feels lonely, and if she will reach out if her heart aches…

She’s an introvert. I’m an extrovert. She has an angelic singing voice. Dogs run when I sing. She loves eggplant. I recoil at the mere…

Dear Mom, You’ve been my #1 fan my whole life. You were my fan even before I was born, even while I was making you so sick. I brought you misery…

When I tell someone my mom has Alzheimer’s, the first thing they usually ask is, “Does she know who you are?” There was a time when I could…

I started writing my mom’s eulogy the other day. Not on paper, but in my head. Nothing has happened. Nothing has changed. In fact, things are…

This post originally appeared on the author’s Facebook page. Having had no fewer than 12 students (male and female) sob in my office in the…

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